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Mary Conrow Coelho posted an update 11 years, 2 months ago
I need go know where in Thomas Berry’s writing I can find his words: “We will go into the future as a single, sacred society or perish on the way.:” I need a citation for these words.
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Seems crazy that we don’t know the citation for this quote which is used everywhere. Does anyone know the citation??
Mary, I think it’s community rather than society.
I copied the whole paragraph from which the quote comes from. You can find the exact quote at the middle of the paragraph.
It comes from Thomas Berry in his dialogue with Thomas Clarke in 1990, from which the book Befriending the Earth emerged:
“The earth is a very special sacred community. Humans become sacred by participating in this larger sacred community (more than the earth becomes sacred by participating in our human community). We must be integrated into the religious dimension of the earth. It is, of course, a mutual process. One is the expression of the other. In my view, the human community and the natural world will go into the future as a single sacred community or we will both perish in the desert. That is the significance, that is the importance, of understanding this larger dimension of scared community. We have been trying to go into the future as a human community in an exploitative relationship with the natural community without any sense of being integral with this natural world as a sacred community. From now on, that is just not acceptable, purely and simply, because it is a way, not of life, but of death.”
–from page 43, chapter 2: “Sacred Community, Spiritual Discipline, and Ritual”, of Befriending the Earth: A Theology of Reconciliation Between Humans and the Earth; Thomas Berry, C.P. in dialogue with Thomas Clarke, S.J. edited by Stephen Dunn, C.P. and Anne Lonergan. 1992
Thank you very much Jose. Yes, this it is! I very much appreciate your help. Just yesterday evening someone pointed me to the same place. I’m delighted to have a citation for the important sentence. Mary
you are welcome, mary