People For Earth

Thomas Berry was on the most important thorniest on the relationship between the nature and people. A Catholic priest of the Passionist order, philosopher, cultural historian and writer, he preferred to be called a geologian or an “Earth scholar.” A passionate and knowledgeable spokesperson for Earth, he was introduced as one of the most excellent cultural historians, and Newsweek mentioned him as a scholar as a new kind of eco-theologian who most stimulates.

In 1934, he entered the Passionist order and dedicated his life to research and studies. After receiving his Ph.D. in European intellectual history, he studied Chinese language and culture in the late 1940’s. In 1950s, he served as Chaplain Priest in Europe. Later, He taught Indian and Chinese cultural history at Seton Hall University and Fordham University.

For more than twenty years, Thomas directed the Riverdale Center of Religious Research.
His books include The Dream of the Earth, The Universe story (Co-authored with Brian Swimme) The Great Work: Our Way Into the Future, and Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community (Edited by Evelyn Tucker).
In 1995, Berry returned to Greensboro, North Carolina where he was born and continued to he continued to write and lecture until his death at the age of 94.

Bibligraphy

1934 Entered the Passionist Order

1948 Received Ph.D. from the Catholic University of America in European intellectual history
(The HistoricalTheory of Giambattista Vico)

1948 Studied Chinese language and culture in China and USA, and learned Sanskrit for the study of India
and the traditions of religion in India.
Seton Hall University, Center of Asian Studies ,
Saint John's University, Center of Asian Studies

1966-1979 Director graduate program in History of Religion at Fordham University

1970-1995 Founder and director of Riverdale Center of Religious Research

1975-1987 President of American Teilhard de Chardin Association

1995 Returned to Greensboro, North Carolina

Noted publications of Thomas Berry

Befriending the Earth: A Theology of Reconciliation Between Humans and the Earth By Thomas Berry with Thomas Clarke, Translated in 2006

The Great Work: Our Way Into the Future By Thomas Berry, Translated in 2009

The Universe Story From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era,
A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos By Thomas Berry with Brian Swimme, Translated in 2010

The Christian Future and the Fate of Earth By Thomas Berry, edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, Translated in 2011

The Dream of the Earth By Thomas Berry, Translated in 2013

Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community (2006) By Thomas Berry, edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker Translated in 2015

THOMAS BERRY: A Biography by Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim, and Andrew Angyal, Translated in 2023