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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
1881 - 1955
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 Spirit
of Fire : The Life and Vision of Teilhard De Chardin by
Ursula
King
A variety of educational and broader cultural
and political questions are addressed in this book, such as:
What are educational practices about? Where do
"schooling" and "learning" take place? What
is critical pedagogy? In posing these questions, the author
argues that pedagogy is central to any struggle for democracy
and that cultural workers must address with specificity the
context in which people translate private concerns into public
issues. Hernandez connects forms of learning, knowledge
production, and subjectivity formation to processes of both
personal and social transformation. She offers her own
experience with the Argentine Mother's Movement as a case study
in feminist intellectual alignment with cultural
workers...
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From the Mathematics Department at Fairfield
University, CT.
Excerpt:
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S. J. was a Jesuit paleontologist who
attempted to interpret the findings of modern science in the light of the
Christian message. The world has been baffled and amazed by the
developments of nuclear energy, space travel, and many other inventions of
modern science. People read in Teilhard a message of hope and optimism and
his work was perhaps even more influential outside the Catholic Church
than within it.
Teilhard's influence and the exceptional response his work has called
forth from all quarters, as well as the controversy that it has
engendered, are explained principally by his inquiry into the human
phenomenon. In Teilhard's eyes the human species constitutes the thrust of
cosmic evolution and is the key for understanding the universe. This fact
leads him to understand the Christian phenomenon in an evolutionary
context, as the ultimate source in God's plan of that human energy needed
for evolution's success...
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Chapter 5 of God
and Science by Charles P. Henderson.
Excerpt:
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) stands among the very few
leaders of thought in this century to integrate pure scientific research
with a religious vocation. At an early point in his career this
paleontologist and Jesuit priest made it his personal mission to
reconstruct the most basic Christian doctrines from the perspectives of
science and, at the same time, to reconstruct science from the
perspectives of faith. He would do this by overthrowing all the barriers
that had been erected between science and religion in the past one hundred
years. He would take the lessons learned from the study of nature as the
foundation on which to reconstruct the Christian faith. He would
single-handedly remake all the dogmas of his own Catholic Church, and he
would at the same time remake the world of modern science on the model
suggested by his personal experience of God...
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An essay by Dr. A. B. Kelly in philosophical theology concerning the work of Teilhard de Chardin and Nicolai
Hartmann.
(First published in Quodlibet
Journal: Volume 2 Number 1, January 2000)
Excerpt:
Nicolai Hartmann, (1882-1950) is a Latvian Philosopher. He was a contemporary of Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955).
Both men were phenomenologists, that is, they sought to understand and describe the phenomena which they encountered. Their
perspectives on the world, however, were quite different. Both studied mankind, but while Teilhard sought to situate mankind
within the broad sweep of cosmogenesis - the evolution of the cosmos from its initiation - and from a religious perspective,
Hartmann studied mankind at much closer quarters and from an atheistic perspective. Despite this bias, Hartmann
focused particularly on understanding man's spiritual nature. Sydney
Hook, the philosopher who reviewed Hartmann's 'Ethics', recognized Hartmann as the greatest analyst, since Aristotle, of
the ideals by which men live, and for which they live...
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Short essay by Anodea Judith.
Excerpt:
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a visionary French Jesuit,
paleontologist, biologist, and philosopher, who spent the bulk of his life
trying to integrate religious experience with natural science, most
specifically Christian theology with theories of evolution. In this
endeavor he became absolutely enthralled with the possibilities for
humankind, which he saw as heading for an exciting convergence of systems,
an "Omega point" where the coalescence of consciousness will
lead us to a new state of peace and planetary unity. Long before ecology
was fashionable, he saw this unity he saw as being based intrinsically
upon the spirit of the Earth:
"The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not
perish, is to build the Earth"...
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Essay by John R. Mabry.
Excerpt:
Progressive Catholics have long cherished Teilhard de Chardin and his
unique and mystical vision, and for those of us who have only recently
discovered the New Cosmology, his discovery is as great an epiphany as the
encountering of Hildegard, Julian of Norwich, or any of the other mystics
who testify to Divine immanence. Teilhard was a man possessed of rare
vision who was capable of remythologizing his faith to fit the
"facts" that his scientific studies convinced him of. His was
not a God "out there" who disapproved of humans hypothesizing
about or even tampering with the Creation. His God was an organic entity
who lived and breathed the life and breath of the Creation, a Creator who
was simultaneously giving birth to and being born from the magnificent
organism of the universe. His views are profoundly Creation-centered, and
are worthy of our present consideration not only because his thought was
ahead of its time, but because his predictions; which seemed so unlikely
in his own time; are coming to pass unnoticed beneath our very
noses...
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Essay by Jennifer Cobb Kreisberg.
Excerpt:
He has inspired Al Gore and Mario Cuomo. Cyberbard John Perry Barlow
finds him richly prescient. Nobel laureate Christian de Duve claims his
vision helps us find meaning in the cosmos. Even Marshall McLuhan cited
his "lyrical testimony" when formulating his emerging
global-village vision. Whom is this eclectic group celebrating? An obscure
Jesuit priest and paleontologist named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, whose
quirky philosophy points, oddly, right into cyberspace.
Teilhard de Chardin finds allies among those searching for grains of
spiritual truth in a secular universe. As Mario Cuomo put it,
"Teilhard made negativism a sin. He taught us how the whole universe
- even pain and imperfection - is sacred." Marshall McLuhan turned to
Teilhard as a source of divine insight in The
Gutenberg Galaxy, his classic analysis of Western culture's
descent into a profane world. Al Gore, in his book Earth
in the Balance, argues that Teilhard helps us understand the
importance of faith in the future. "Armed with such faith," Gore
writes, "we might find it possible to resanctify the earth, identify
it as God's creation, and accept our responsibility to protect and defend
it"...
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This site is an approach to the thought and
ideas of Teilhard de Chardin, under the format of an article by Maria
Luiza Glycerio.
Site Includes:
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Site by Duen Hsi Yen, inspired by the word
coined by Teilhard de Chardin. It contains an English article by Maria
Luiza Glycerio on Teilhard with other texts and photos.
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This group was created among the Academy of
Caen (Normandy, France) and was thereafter open to all person interested
in Teilhard de Chardin's work. Members have various professional
activities and cultural background (science, philosophy or faith).
The objectives are the following :
- to study the work of Teilhard de Chardin under the lights of recent
development of scientific knowledge,
- to assess how Teilhard de Chardin's work can help us to reach a
consistent global view of the Universe and of our presence in it,
- to evaluate how far his work can get us a clearer view to the
expected future and the way to follow,
- to make people meet, actually or on the net, and join the
interdisciplinary reflection on the subject.
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