Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you havent committed. It envisions christ as the heart of the universe, in the heart of matter. 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. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. National geologic survey of china, and director of the. This book is perhaps the work of pierre teilhard s that stands alone in that it contains almost no scientific treatises.
One could say that the whole of life lies in seeing if not ultimately, at least essentially. Man and for the spirit of god will have taken place 1517 oct. The gravity of the present times induces us to make these extracts known immediately, pending the full publication at a later date of the whole corpus of his writings on the future of man and on human energy. He was born may 1, 1881, and died on april 10, 1955. Fortunately, many of his works available online and in downloadable ebook format for free through the community books open source initiative. It is mainly a poeticspiritual testament to the world of spirit in matter. A serious study of teilhard can help that engagement and will thus be rewarding to both communities. In his important book le phinomene humain he develops the theory of an integral evolution. While both of his parental lineages were distinguished, it is noteworthy that his mother was the great grandniece of francoismarie arouet, more popularly known as voltaire. Regarding the future of the human race, he deals with topics. Teilhard then argues that evolution has not stopped with the creation of human beings, but is now in the process of converging the human mass like atoms and cells before. Shattered as a child by the loss of his idols of stone, iron, and the impermanence of his own body, teilhard set out on.
Forward a link to this web page to your clergy, family, friends and relatives. The omega point is the belief that everything in the universe is fated to spiral towards a final point of unification. It draws back the veil of words in which his final conclusions were clothed far enough for us to recognize the ancestry and status of his theories. Blending science and christianity, he declared that the human epic resembles nothing so.
We hope to make it accessibleclearly, simply, and understandablyto those who wish to experience it. He died on easter sunday 10 april 1955 in new york. Pdf teilhard and other modern thinkers on evolution, mind, and. The nearest town, clermontferrand, was the birthplace of seventeenthcentury mathematician and religious philosopher blaise pascal 1623. To be more is to be more united and this sums up and is the very conclusion of the work to follow. Vas for suggestion the phenomenon of man for inclusion in this bespoke online library. In this work, teilhard describes evolution as a process that leads to increasing complexity, culminating in. A jesuit theologian disguised as a paeontologist, pierre teilhard wrote since 1925 of the noosphere, the layer created by all conscious beings, the same concept used by vladimir vernadsky in 1926 although in a technological, not spiritual, setting. He conceived the idea of the omega point a maximum level of complexity and consciousness. The publication of teilhards remaining essays in the future of man thus has one helpful effect. Like other great visionary poetsblake, hopkins, yeats teilhard engages the reader both intellectually and sensually. He was already involved in the cultural evolution that now takes place in cyberspace.
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