The Great Work: Our Way into the Future - Hardcover

Berry, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0609605259 ISBN 13: 9780609605257

Verlag: Crown Publications, 1999

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Book by Berry Thomas

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A cultural historian synthesizes his own work in the areas of religious history and cultural studies to argue for creating a new path for ecological and cultural survival. 15,000 first printing.

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ost eminent cultural historians of our time presents the culmination of his ideas and calls for us to experience creation as a source of wonder and delight rather than a commodity for our personal use.

Thomas Berry has written and lectured extensively on technological civilization and the need for us to move from being a disrupting force on this earth to a benign presence. This transition is the Great Work of which he speaks. It is at the same time the most necessary and most ennobling work we will ever undertake. Berry's message is not one of doom but of hope. He calls upon all aspects of society to remember their function, particularly the universities and other educational institutions whose role is to guide students into an appreciation rather than an exploitation of the world around them. Berry is the leading spokesperson for the Earth, and his profound ecological insight at this determining moment in history illuminates the path we need to take in the realms of ethics, politics, ec

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• Verlag: Crown Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0609605259
• ISBN 13: 9780609605257
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 241