Thomas Berry

Context and Contribution

Abstract

Anne Marie Dalton teaches in the Department of Religious Studies, at St. Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. A long-time associate of the Holy Cross Centre on Ecology and Spirituality in PortBurnell, Ontario, Professor Dalton recently completed her doctoral dissertation, entitled Thomas Berry’s Religious Ecology in Light of Bernard Lonergan’s Theory of Emergent Possibility, at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. Here, she comments on Thomas Berry’s contribution to the conversation between ecology and religion, as well as Berry’s preceding reflection on the religious implications of the Gaia Theory