Blending science and christianity, he declared that the human epic resembles nothing so much as a way of the cross. It is a treatise on how to live the christian life in the modern world. His visionary writings on the reconciliation of faith and evolutionary theory aroused the suspicions of the vatican and he was. The nearest town, clermontferrand, was the birthplace of seventeenthcentury mathematician and religious philosopher blaise pascal 1623 1662, best known for in. Teilhard was the fourth of eleven children and a distant descendant of voltaire. Fortunately, many of his works available online and in downloadable ebook format for free through the community books open source initiative. In the summer of 1966 five books by teilhard had been published in the united states and his name was widely mentioned in catholic circles. In 1898 he entered the jesuit order and, after initial studies at aix en provence and the isle of jersey, was assigned to a jesuit school in cairo, where he taught physics and. To be more is to be more united and this sums up and is the very conclusion of the work to follow. See all 6 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. He was born may 1, 1881, and died on april 10, 1955. His father was a country gentleman of means with a scholarly interest in history, and he instilled in his son a passion for animals and plants, and the volcanoes and rocks of the region in which he grew up.
We hope to make it accessibleclearly, simply, and understandablyto those who wish to experience it. 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. April 1955 in new york usa herausragender denker des 20. He explains how both ones actions and passivities can be divinised by recognizing that christ lies at the heart of the world which has brought your being into existence, and which. Regarding the future of the human race, he deals with topics such as globalization, the nuclear bomb, democracy, the likelihood of life on other planets, and whether peace on earth is scientifically viable.
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