Teilhard de Chardin - His Life and Work

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881 – 1955) was a man decades ahead of his time. An ordained Jesuit priest, Teilhard was also a philosopher and paleontologist best-known for his blend of evolutionary science and theology. Because of his deeply mystical writing, he was admonished by the Roman Catholic Church and also by his Jesuit order – however his faith did not waver in these warnings. Teilhard was deeply influenced by Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory, and so Teilhard’s own writing reflects a sort of evolution of man in regard to a universal Christ and a cosmic, net consciousness . He also found influence in early church figures such as Origen, Gregory of Nyssa (a key for Teilhard’s universalism), and Ignatius of Loyola (the founder of the Jesuit order and prolific missionary, which would inspire Teilhard’s own world travels). In a beautiful blending of science and theology, Teilhard writes: “Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”

[phiarchitect]

Thank you for this summary. I appreciated the context you established with other great thinkers. I am just discovering Teilhard but his work resonates deeply. I have been on a calling to explore the architecture of all that is. I have realized, along with Teilhard, that this is a journey into the divine. Are you planning any more content about Teilhard?

[lajphd]

This is fantastic. Need that diagram on a shirt. Really think de Chardin is applicable to 2001 but haven’t cracked that one yet

[andrewmichaelschaefferXIV]

Thanks!

Savitri Devi, Lightning and the Sun, no?