Why Ecological Spirituality?

The following is an excerpt from a reflection by Sister Kathleen Deignan, CND, Ph.D. on the eco-spiritual vision of Thomas Berry. She presented this reflection as a keynote for the Spirituality & Sustainability Global Network Zoom Reunion Conversation on 22 May 2021. The Network is reproducing this except because we judge that the deep root of Industrial Civilization's global ecological devastation is the Modern World's loss of consciousness that our garden-planet Earth and our beauteous Cosmos are sacred. For example, prior to Modernity, the mainstream of Christianity, like the mainstream of many religions, held that everything in creation is sacramentally sacred because it reveals the sacred presence of the Creator.