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Robert V. Thomann, D. Min., Ph.D. is a Permanent Deacon married to Joan. They have ministered in Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church in Ridgewood, New Jersey for 50 years. Bob and Joan were married in 1957, they had seven children. Bob was ordained Deacon in 1977. For the past 25 years, they have walked in the Neocatechumenal Way of the Parish. He is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Engineering and Science at Manhattan College, NY and is an Emeritus Member of the National Academy of Engineering. He has taught in the diaconate programs of the Dioceses of Newark and Paterson, New Jersey.

His most recent books include Environmental Fear Or Christian Environmental Love: The Great Environmental Choice and A Hemorrhaging Church: Evangelization and the Neocatechumenal Way.

Robert and Joan Thomann

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Do you feel that our relationship with our environment is in crisis?

Does it make you feel clouded and overwhelmed by multiple interests and perspectives?

It can make it very difficult to formulate decisions and evaluate alternatives.  Crisis demands penetration to the root of the problem.

Our existential fear of the environment is seen as fundamental in our relationship to the world around us. This fear, often exacerbated by the medial and a form of environmental Gnosticism arises out of the human desire to remain in a “horizontal” plane, where a type of environmental paradise on earth, constructed by human means is believed to be possible.

History has proved otherwise. So, a different path is necessary, a direction that requires a fundamental choice.  FIND OUT MORE.

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