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CONTENTS Foreword v Introduction 1 CHAPTER ONE — THE METHOD AND TRADITION OF BERRY'S CULTURALHISTORY 7 Introduction 7 Berry's Dissertation on Giambattista Vico 8 Vico's Influence on Berry 16 Summary 27 Notes 29 CHAPTER TWO — THE INFLUENCEOF WORLD RELIGIONS 33 Introduction 33 The General Framework: An Existentialist-Humanist Motivation 34 Underlying Assumptions 38 Key Influential Ideas from the Content of the World Religions 50 Summary 56 Notes 56 X A THEOLOGYFOR THE EARTH CHAPTER THREE — INTERACTION WITH THE THOUGHT OF TEILHARDDE CHARDIN 61 Introduction 61 Berry's Development of Teilhard's Thought— Role of Classical Civilizations and Non-Christian Religions 63 Berry's Critique of Teilhard in the Light of the Ecological Crisis 69 Summary 72 Notes 73 CHAPTER FOUR — THE INFLUENCE OF MODERN SCIENCE 77 Introduction 77 Changing Conception of Scientific Epistemology 78 Supportive Theories in ScientificCosmology 81 Ecology and Natural History 95 Notes 102 CHAPTER FIVE — BERRY'S PROPOSAL FOR THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS 107 Introduction 107 "Myth/' "Story" and "Cosmology" in Berry's Work 109 Critique of the Modern Age Ill Berry's Proposal—A "New Story" 118 Notes 136 CHAPTER SIX — BERNARDLONERGAN AND EMERGENT PROBABILITY 141 Introduction 141 Description and Explanation 142 Emergent Probability and the "New Story" 143 Decline and Its Solution 148 Notes 167 CHAPTER SEVEN — A THEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF BERRY'S PROPOSAL 173 Introduction 173 The Methodological Question 173 The Content Question: The Christian Horizon 187 Notes 191 Summary and Conclusions 195 Bibliography —Works Cited 201 ...

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