@CTmagazine @jeff_bilbro 3/ Berry and Cranmer are both concerned with the condition of the reader. Berry just locates the formative deficit further upstream—not in reading practices but in cosmological attunement. We can't hear, read and digest the Word while half blind to the reality it emerges within.
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Alt -text of image here: Thomas Berry It is false to say that humanity is the most excellent being in the universe. The most excellent being in the universe is the universe itself. The universe itself is the primary sacred community. Every other sacrament, being and action is derivative of that holy sacrament. Our present urgency is to recover a sense of the primacy of the Universe as our fundamental context, and the primacy of the Earth as the matrix from which life has emerged and on which life depends. Recovering this sense is essential to establishing the framework for mutually enhancing human-Earth relations for the flourishing of life on the planet. Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and all its living forms, its mountains and valleys, the rain, the wind, and all the flora and fauna of the planet are telling us. The Universe story is the quintessence of reality, and that is why it is so important to know the story. If you do not know the story, in a sense you do not know yourself: you do not know anything. == []
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