The Great Work: Our Way into the Future

About this book

One of the most 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. Berrys 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 economics and education if both we and the planet are to survive.