From the Publisher’s Desk

Publisher’s Letter For September 2010

By Robert Ellsberg - Publisher

September 1, 2010 - Dear Friends,

Raimon Panikkar, who died on August 26 at the age of 91, was one of the great philosophers and religious thinkers of our time. I am proud to say he was also one of our esteemed authors.
The son of a Roman Catholic mother from Barcelona and a Hindu Indian father, Panikkar spent a lifetime trying to reconcile the spiritual wisdom of the East and West, and demonstrating the possibility of a multi-religious identity. He was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest, but was equally conversant in the religious worldviews of Buddhism and Hinduism, having mastered all the classics in their original languages. He was also fully comfortable in the world of science (with a doctorate in chemistry as well as doctorates in philosophy and theology).

Among his sixty books were seven Orbis titles, including The Unknown Christ of Hinduism, The Silence of God: The Answer of the Buddha, and Christophany: The Fullness of Man.

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In the News

From the www.voiceofamerica.com website - The Legacy of Thomas Berry: Ecology and World Religions

August 5, 2010 - A radio Interview with Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim

Acclaimed cultural historian, cosmologist, Passionist priest, and Earth scholar, Thomas Berry, was among the first of our world’s religious leaders to suggest that the earth ecological crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis. Thomas Berry dedicated his life to The Great Work of our time which he described simply as "moving the human community from its present situation as a destructive presence on the planet to a benign or mutually enhancing presence."

Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, co-founders and co-directors of The Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale and The Thomas Berry Foundation, join host Robin Bradley Hansel to share their stories and reflections on Thomas Berry's life, his work, his writings, and his passionate dream for our Earth community.

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