ROBERT MUNDLE

Paperback | 241 Pages | Bell Tower (2000)

“The natural world demands a response beyond scientific insight. The natural world demands a response that rises from the wild unconscious depths of the human soul.” (Thomas Berry, “The Wild and the Sacred,” in The Great Work, 55).

Thomas Berry (1914-2009) was a brilliant thinker and a theologian, and this book is the culmination of his career. No other writer has such a comprehensive or historically rich vision of the way in which we must address the future. The Great Work is to find a way to heal the planet. Berry tells us how to respond to the earth, enter into a conversation with it – an understanding on which our life and its depends. He explains the spiritual dynamics of the universe and how we need to move from our human-centered to an earth-centered view of reality. We must recognize that the earth belongs to itself and not to us. Berry’s writing is lucid, spare, and beautiful.