Teilhard de Chardin place of man in the universe
"Before the world was made, he chose us, chose us in Christ, to be holy and spotless, and to live through love in his presence, determining that we should become his adopted sons, through Jesus Christ." (Eph. I, 4-5). These powerful words of St. Paul in his first letter to the Ephesians, I think, best characterize the spirit of Teilhard the Chardin, his idea of man and man's place in the universe, and of the common goals of humanity.Just imagine somebody... Somebody, whose whole life was a continuous prayer to God, a prayer, in which he constantly asked to break through the seal of traditional authority and common ignorance, and explore the depth of reality, the ultimate beginning and the ultimate end, and the reasons behind the emergence of life and conscious beings in the universe. Of course, that means that your books are put on the Index and you are almost made into a heretic by the True and Holy Catholic Church. But he didn't give up. He clearly saw his goals, his purpose. It was his life's work, to trace back the origins of mankind, and to speculate of its goals and ultimate outcome. It was his type of spirituality, scientific spirituality, that drove him incessantly to spend sleepless nights trying to make sense o
Everything is in the constant process of change, and a particular kind of change - evolution. This change in belief will lead to the birth of love of the universe and of the unity of all. But what kind of a breakthrough? What is the primordial element that gave rise to life in the universe? What is it composed of? As a Catholic priest, he should say, "well, the universe was created by God out of nothing in six days, and culminated in the creation of man out of earth. ut of scientific facts, to tie them together with what seemed apparent, and with that which didn't seem so apparent. This, in turn, evolved into love of procreation, finally becoming 'humanized' love, love towards unity, completion of several into the Whole. To act is to create, he says in "Human Energy. We have to understand one thing here: Teilhard was a scientist, who believed that there was more than just the material dimension in the cosmos. Conventional pictures of God as a landowner/king/judge, above and outside of everything, are simply outdated. They are an attempt to understand the universe through man, who is very much part of it. God is the unifying principle, the center that directs all evolution towards unity.
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