Commeration Teilhard's Death in NYC Easter 1955

Bucknell Edu ^ | undated | unknown

[sageb1]

In April of 2005 the American Teilhard Association, in collaboration with the French and British Teilhard Associations and other partnering institutions, begins a yearlong commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the death of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) in New York City. One of the leading thinkers of the 20th century, Teilhard integrated his scientific understanding of evolution with his religious understanding of the "divine milieu."

[ken5050]

FYI..the CIA ( Culinary Institute of America)in Hyde Park, NY is a former Jesuit complex. Thousands go each day to eat at the restaurants in the complex. Few know is that on the grounds there is a Catholic cemetery. When you enter the main building, if, at the security office you ask for the key to the gate, you can walk down to the cemetery and stroll among the gravesites. There are no headstones, but in keeping with humility, just simple markers flush with the ground. And way off under a lone tree , completely isolated, and far distant from any other grave, is the plot of de Chardin, as thought the powers that be feared that even in death he would somehow "contaminate" the minds and souls of the others interred there.

[Piers-the-Ploughman]

"Leading Thinker of 20th Century" translates to Leading Heretic of same... (IMHO)

I am pretty sure most of his teachings remain at least officially condemned by the Vatican, but unfortunately you can claim that more than a few Cardinals are fellow-travellers and almost certainly be correct

[solitas]

And way off under a lone tree , completely isolated, and far distant from any other grave, is the plot of de Chardin, as thought the powers that be feared that even in death he would somehow "contaminate" the minds and souls of the others interred there.

Well, he WAS french...

[RightWhale]

He was a genius. As such he was entitled to a few errors.

[Piers-the-Ploughman]

A fitting resting place for Teilhard. Even after 40 years of auto-demolition, the smoke of satan, and the New Springtime, much of his teaching remains officially condemned by the Church, doesn't it?

[Piers-the-Ploughman]

A fitting resting place for Teilhard. Even after 40 years of auto-demolition, the smoke of satan, and the New Springtime, much of his teaching remains officially condemned by the Church, doesn't it?

[nkycincinnatikid]

I read him back in my 20's. I recall being profoundly interested . But he seemed to put all his eggs in one basket. It was all "Holy Ghost" and no Father and Son.

[ex-snook]

Not sure. But I believe he adhered to Church leaders not to be published until after he died.

[WriteOn]

BWAAAHHHHHAAAAAAHAAAAAAAA

I'm a genius or was. If I tell you that pantheism is the way to go is that an error I'm entitled to?

ROFL

[jobim]

Is anyone familiar with the Flannery O'Connor short story Everything That Rises Must Converge?

The title is from Chardin, and the story is a demolition of his premise: ie things are evolving over time upwards toward God. In the unlikliest manner of attack, she uses the theme of integration in the New South, with a condescending son of the New South and his mother stuck in the mindset of segregation (both white), and an incident with three blacks on a newly integrated bus. Her thesis is that salvation is not dependent upon evolutionary time (as Chardin proposes), but is available in a single moment of grace.

I teach high school English and I enjoy bringing this to the attention of the students. It's from a fascinating essay on convergence by Mark Helprin, wherein he cites the great poem of Thomas Hardy, "Convergence of the Twain". See the following address to read the essay: http://www.claremont.org/writings/991130helprin.html.