Great French thinker Teilhard de Chardin
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1 May 1881 Auvergne – 10 April 1955 New York) was a French Jesuit priest, philosopher, and a paleontologist (from Wikipedia)
French religious thinker and scientist, geologist and paleontologist, member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit). He is best known for his concept of the Universe as a true evolution, which is not predetermined or planned, but is moving towards its goal at the Omega point, which actively connects and attracts the diversity of the world.
He presents an original synthesis of the biblical idea of Creation and the end of the world with what we know about evolution thanks to modern science. His method of “non-reductive phenomenology” allowed him to combine a scientific view of the Universe as a whole with Christian spirituality. His ideas were followed by a number of thinkers who also tried to create a coherent picture of the Universe and humanity as a whole.
From 1912 to 1914 he studied geology and worked in the paleontological department of the Natural History Museum in Paris, where he studied Tertiary mammals and reconstructed Neanderthals. In August 1914 he was mobilized and served as a wounded bearer for four years at the front; for his bravery he received high French decorations, the Médaille militaire and the Légion d'honneur.
In 1923, he visited China for the first time with P. E. Licent. At that time, two of his essays on the interpretation of original sin provoked disapproval from his superiors and the Vatican, so he had to stop lecturing and devote himself only to his geological and paleontological work. From 1926 to 1945, he lived mainly in China, participated in the discovery of "Chinese man", Sinanthropus, traveled throughout Southeast Asia, created the first geological map of China, and visited paleontological sites in North Africa, Java, South Africa, and elsewhere. He worked closely with Chinese, British, and American colleagues, with whom he prepared the first overview of the origins of man.
The war caught him back in China, and in 1946 he returned to France, traveled and lectured, and in 1950 he was elected a member of the Academy. Although he was already a well-known figure in France at that time, the opposition of his superiors and the Vatican could not be overcome – to Teilhard’s great disappointment – but Teilhard nevertheless submitted to their ban. In 1951 he accepted an offer from the American Science Foundation and moved to New York, where he lived and worked in the Jesuit college at the Church of St. Ignatius on Park Avenue, and died on Easter Sunday 1955.
Of Teilhard's extensive work, only scholarly works and a few scattered essays were published during his lifetime. The rest of his writings circulated only in copies and transcripts. The Collected Works, which do not include scholarly publications, began to be published shortly after his death, and by 1976 thirteen volumes had been published.
QUOTES
Christ has a cosmic body that extends throughout the universe.
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The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.
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What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.
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At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord.
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Science will, in all probability, be increasingly impregnated by mysticism.
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“What captivates me is the future, and I see it completely aflame with the God who is born everywhere.”
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“The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
Zdroj: https://citaty.net/autori/pierre-teilhard-de-chardin/
“The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
Zdroj: https://citaty.net/autori/pierre-teilhard-de-chardin/
“The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
Zdroj: https://citaty.net/autori/pierre-teilhard-de-chardin/
“The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love.
And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
With love and hope
Margaret
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