Yale University
The Worldview of Thomas Berry: The Flourishing of the Earth Community
Yale University

The Worldview of Thomas Berry: The Flourishing of the Earth Community

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John Grim
Mary Evelyn Tucker

Instructors: John Grim

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1 video6 readings1 discussion prompt

Mary Evelyn and John talk about their first encounters with Thomas Berry.

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Thomas Berry was a scholar of Earth’s cultures; someone who inspired others to understand that the scientific story of the universe was a primary revelation, on the part with the world’s religions, and needing to be integrated with world’s cultures.

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Learn how Pierre Teilhard de Chardin inspired Thomas Berry. Discover Special Relativity as a way of showing the omnipresence of the “within.”

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Thomas Berry’s Differentiation, Subjectivity, and Communion as the overall guidance the New Story provides for humanity.

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Thomas Berry's notion of the human as being derivative of the Earth Community: a primary governing principle for moving into the ecological era.

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From a biological level, what is happening in our time is a recoding of Earth’s processes when natural selection is being overpowered by cultural selection, so that human decision has become geological in its reach. Thomas Berry summarized this by saying that the crucial task of our time is to reinvent the human species with the systems of Earth’s life by means of story and shared dream experience.

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5 videos7 readings2 quizzes1 discussion prompt

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John Grim
Yale University
13 Courses41,981 learners
Mary Evelyn Tucker
Yale University
13 Courses41,981 learners

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