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

Name: The Worldview of Thomas Berry: The Flourishing of the Earth Community
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Week 1 - Welcome to The Worldview of Thomas Berry: the Flourishing of the Earth Community
Learn what this course is about, who's teaching it, and other ways you can explore this topic. Meet and greet your peers as well!
Week 1 - Introduction - Thomas Berry as Cultural Historian
Mary Evelyn and John talk about their first encounters with Thomas Berry.
Week 2 - Thomas Berry’s Study of World Cultures and Religions
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.
Week 3 - Influence of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Learn how Pierre Teilhard de Chardin inspired Thomas Berry. Discover Special Relativity as a way of showing the omnipresence of the “within.”
Week 4 - “The New Story”
Thomas Berry’s Differentiation, Subjectivity, and Communion as the overall guidance the New Story provides for humanity.
Week 5 - Cosmology and Ecology
Thomas Berry's notion of the human as being derivative of the Earth Community: a primary governing principle for moving into the ecological era.
Week 6 - The Great Work and the Ecozoic Era
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 ...

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Mary Evelyn Tucker
Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Scholar
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

John Grim
Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Scholar
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

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For more than 300 years, Yale University has inspired the minds that inspire the world. Based in New Haven, Connecticut, Yale brings people and ideas together for positive impact around the globe. A research university that focuses on students and encourages learning as an essential way of life, Yale is a place for connection, creativity, and innovation among cultures and across disciplines.