Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre. creator text nyu New York Harper & Row [1968] 1968 [1st U.S. ed.] monographic eng

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230 pages ; 22 cm. As here related, in an intensely moving passage written shortly before his death on Easter Sunday 1955,the author's superiors and other influences wanted to confine him to science; he escaped the confinement to turn the force of his genius –like Pascal and Newton– also on to Christ. The result, as witnessed by the essays which constitute this book (the chronological succesor to Writings in Time of War), offer an outline–indeed,a prophetic vision–of Christian philosophy for our time: a plea for a complete re-thinking of our whole outlook on Christianity in the light of the scientists' concept of a dynamically moving universe. Religion and science are not merely reconciled, but indissolubly linked as two aspects of adoration of the divine. Science and Christ throws fresh light on the Phenomenon of Man and Le Milieu Divin. The great paæontogist proved to be one.--Jacket desing by Kenneth Farnhill. What Exactly is the Human Body? -- Note on the Universal Christ -- Science and Christ or Analysis and Synthesis -- My Universe -- The Phenomenon of Man -- Christianity in the World -- Modern Unbelief -- Some Reflexions on the Conversion of the World -- Modern Unbelief -- Some Rfleions on the Conversion of the World -- The Salvation of Mankind -- Super-Humanity, Super-Christ, Super-Charity -- Action and Activation -- Catholicism and Science -- Degrees of Scientific Certainty in the Idea of Evolution -- Ecumenism -- The Religious Value of Research -- Note on the Biological Structure of Mankind -- What is life? -- Can Biology, Tken to its Extreme Limit, Enable us to Emerge into the Transcendent? -- Research, Work and Worship -- Appendix : Letter to Emmanuel Mouier, 2 November 1947. Translated from the French by René Hague. Religion and science B 2430.T373 S313 1968 215 69010470 DLC 700114 20230707101426.0 3597631 spa