Every new season, our team at the LSI will make a special selection of items to display in the featured sources section. This fall, we have chosen to highlight the following texts:
Laudato Si’ (“Praise be to You”) is Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical focused on care for our common home—the Earth. It is one of the most significant Church documents on ecology and social justice, arguing that environmental destruction is not just a technical problem but rooted in human behaviour—consumerism, indifference, and misuse of creation.
A concise, comprehensive overview of Wilber's thought and its application in today's world. In A Theory of Everything, Wilber uses clear, nontechnical language to present complex, cutting-edge theories that integrate the realms of body, mind, soul, and spirit. He then demonstrates how these theories and models can be applied to real-world problems in areas such as politics, medicine, business, education, and the environment. Wilber also discusses daily practices that readers take up in order to apply this integrative vision to their own everyday lives.
A pioneering text in integral ecology. Combined theological and ethical reflection, Boff and Elizondo link environmental destruction with human suffering, especially the suffering of the poor. Appearing in the broader context of liberation theology, the authors argue that social justice and ecological justice are inseparable.
This landmark work, first published by Sierra Club Books in 1988, has established itself as a foundational volume in the ecological canon. In it, noted cultural historian Thomas Berry provides nothing less than a new intellectual-ethical framework for the human community by positing planetary well-being as the measure of all human activity. Drawing on the wisdom of Western philosophy, Asian thought, and Native American traditions, as well as contemporary physics and evolutionary biology, Berry offers a new perspective that recasts our understanding of science, technology, politics, religion, ecology, and education.