Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a spirituality from the scientific view of the world (original) (raw)
Teilhard de Chardin besides his scientific work in geology and paleontology, especially related to the fossil origins of man in China, developed a philosophical and theological thought rethinking Christian faith taking into account the evolutionary view of the world provided by science. His thought sprung from a deep spirituality and mystic experience. His spirituality was founded on the role of Christ in an evolving universe, as the creator and the center of the evolving process. Here I present the main lines of his spirituality. The role of science as Teilhard is aware that science is the main force that drives today human progress. The relation between matter and spirit, the convergence of the cosmic evolving process to what he has called the Omega Point, that is identified with the Christ of Christian faith. According to Teilhard, we can neither think of the universe without its center in Christ nor of Christ without being the center of the universe. This leads to the concepts of Cosmic or Universal Christ and the process of cosmogenesis becoming a Christgenesis. Thus the world becomes transparent to the present of Christ in what he calls the “Divine Milieu” and the “Christique”.
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