A Theology for the Earth: The Contributions of Thomas Berry and Bernard Lonergan

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INDEX Adamson, Joy, 27 alchemy, 23, 47 anima mundi, 23, 26. See also world soul anthropic principle, 81, 87-88, 89,90,91,92, 197 strong version, 89-90 weak version, 88-89 anthropocentrism, 178, 179, 200 Aquinas, Thomas, 36, 43, 47, 84, 113, 130, 134 unity in diversity, 43 archetypes, 37, 49, 53, 54, 56, 66, 67, 69, 84, 85, 92, 95, 98, 109, 110, 112, 116, 123 Aristotle, 8, 24, 41, 43, 113, 130 being as continuum in, 41 Augustine, 28, 36, 47, 66, 84, 113, 119, 189, 197 authenticity as solution to decline, 150161 in Chinese thought, 51 autopoiesis, 82-83, 85-86, 127, 128, 129, 130 Bacon, Francis, 16 Bergson, Henri, 23, 26, 46, 80, 94 two kinds of knowledge, 80 Berry, Thomas as "geologian", 33 audience, 62 career, 1-2, 33 contribution to Christian theology, 198-200 cultural historian, 7-8, 1621 , 27, 33 existential concern, 34 218 A THEOLOGYFOR THE EARTH first ecological writing, 98 horizon of his work, 178, 182, 190 humanism in, 35, 37, 196 idea of "reinventing the human", 100 immanence and transcendence of God in, 184-187 influence of ecologists, 97101 influence of natural history, 96-97 influence of the romantic tradition, 26-27 major critique of Teilhard, 70 mystical romantic tradition, 26 native American influence, 52-56 notion of mystery, 183, 184 organicism, 47, 48, 135 preference for term "ecology ", 95-96 problem of evil, 188-190 role of science, 73, 77, 78, 84, 89,95, 119, 124-125, 155 Teilhard's influence, 61-73 unity of nature and history, 81, 124 use of anthropic principle, 88-89, 91-92 Vico's influence, 16, 69 Berry, Wendell, 72, 96 bioregion, 99, 100, 101 bioregionalism, 99, 100, 101, 197 Boehme, Jakob, 23 Bohm, David, 50, 92 Buddhism, 39, 48, 50, 66, 123, 201, 202 Campbell, Joseph,36 Carson, Rachel, 71, 72, 96, 98, 206 Castaneda, Carlos, 53, 206 Catholicism, 37 Chinese religions, 29, 50, 51, 52, 63,66, 117, 123,211 Christianity, 2, 36, 37, 39, 42, 56,61,62,64, 65, 71, 113, 135, 166, 173, 174, 189, 196, 197, 199, 203 Christology, 188 Clarke, Thomas, 186 co-evolution, 82, 83, 86, 87 Colet, John, 35 common sense in Berry, 178, 182, 185 in Lonergan, 142, 143, 148150 , 151, 155, 156, 162 inVico, 13, 18 communion, 44, 45, 46, 47, 50, 51, 52, 53,54, 55, 68, 79, 8485 , 86-87,95, 110, 120, 122, 125-126, 127, 128-129, 131135 , 185, 189 in Chinese thought, 51 cosmic Christ, 66, 188 reference by Berry, 66, 67 reference by Teilhard, 66 cosmic consciousness, 19 cosmic person reference by Berry, 66, 67, 68, 70, 188 reference by Teilhard, 67 cosmogenesis, 83, 84, 115, 123, 127 cosmology, 3, 81, 88, 90, 94, 97, 110, 112, 113, 115, 123, 124, 127, 155, 160, 179, 180, 185 as carrier of values, 110-112 as context of Gaia Theory, 94 INDEX 219 Berry's understanding of, 28, 44, 110, 111, 119, 180 Chinese, 50 in primal cultures, 116 model of the Trinity, 185 of Dante, 42 of peace, 84 of religions, 39 of the pre-modern West, 113-115 related to myth and story, 111 cosmopolis, 161-167, 173, 174, 182, 183, 186, 187, 190, 199, 207 Christian horizon of, 166167 contribution of Berry's proposal, 182-183 religious horizon of, 162-166 role of descriptive language, 164-165 counter-Enlightenment, 12, 22, 56, 77, 92 Crazy Horse, 53 critical realism, 158, 176-177 cultural coding, 115-118, 181 cultural pathology, 47, 99, 100, 116, 135, 190 Dante, 28, 36, 42, 113, 119, 197 death-rebirth, 62 decline, 12, 18, 20, 72, 148-168, 173, 174, 176, 180, 187, 190, 191, 196, 199 Christian solution, 166-167, 187-191 longer cycle of, 148-150, 158, 163, 167, 174, 191, 199 deconstruction, 3 Deists, 44 Descartes, Rene, 9, 10, 14, 21 description Berry's work as, 107-109, 143 description and explanation in Lonergan's work, 107-109, 142-143 differentiation, 22, 43, 44, 63, 84, 85, 120, 122, 125, 127, 128, 129, 132, 134, 135 differentiations of consciousness . See alsoLonergan, Bernard anthropological, 179-180, 181 cosmological, 160, 179-180 ecological, 160-161, 181, 182 Dillard, Annie, 96, 206 dissipative structures, 82 Dobzhansky, Theodosius, 92, 206 Doran, Robert, 159-161, 179182 , 199,203,207,221 account of pyschic conversion , 159-161 dreams, 37, 84, 156, 159, 180, 181, 182 Dubos, Rene 71, 207 Dyson...