Presented by Sam King and John Grim, Ph.D.
What does it mean to be related to matter and life at such fundamental levels of existence? What difference does it make to think of reality as being or as process or as energy?
In this program there will be segments on: 1) Life and thought of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in relation to Journey – e.g. his biography, matter/spirit, Teilhard’s anthropology-cosmology-theology, zest for life, noosphere, omega point, and cosmogenesis. Also a discussion of the life and thought of Thomas Berry in relation to Journey – e.g. his biography, cultural history of religions, 1978 essay “New Story,” his cosmological principles of differentiation-subjectivity-communion, his observation that “The universe is a communion of subjects…,” Earth jurisprudence/rights of Nature. How contributions of a Journey worldview shift as we navigate climate emergencies, environmental changes, and social-environmental-ecological issues of justice.
$60 | Lunch Included
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Sam King is the Project Manager for Journey of the Universe, which he first encountered at a 2017 program at Wisdom House. He is also a graduate student in Religion and Ecology at Yale Divinity School and a Research Assistant for the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology. A former teacher at the Hotchkiss School, Sam is excited to return to the Berkshires where his journey into the story of the universe was first ignited
John Grim, Ph.D. is a Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar teaching in the joint MA program in religion and ecology at Yale University School of the Environment and Yale Divinity School. He is co-founder and co-director of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology with his wife, Mary Evelyn Tucker. With Tucker, Grim directed a 10-conference series and book project at Harvard on “World Religions and Ecology.