Word: chardin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...changing with him. Those shaping the new thought are natural heirs to a number of earlier schools of philosophy and theology that have attempted to explain man's role in the secular-Hegel and Whitehead, the process theologians, the existentialists and evolutionary thinkers like Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The problematic relationship between the sacred and secular is described in Harvey Cox's influential 1965 book The Secular City as "the loosing of the world from religious and quasi-religious understandings of itself, the breaking of all myths and supernatural symbols." If anywhere, Christ might only be sought through...
...toward the stars, much as the "classic" science fiction writers had depicted us. Or we could, as a species of intelligent beings, tool up for--well, something else. Maybe it is, as one of the reviewers of "2001--A Space Odyssey" seems to think, a Teilhard du Chardin-like leap of consciousness, a transfiguration into an all-pervasive incorporeal intelligence. Perhaps it is something not nearly so romantic; maybe just learning to like and respect each other and beginning to live on this planet at peace with ourselves...
...youthful for his 46 years; he seems fresher in each new movie, as if, like Merlin in The Once and Future King, he were living his life backwards. His role, unfortunately, requires him to do some pseudo-lofty philosophizing that sounds very much like a parody of Teilhard de Chardin-as it did in West's novel...
...Similarly, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin used noösphere to mean "world of the mind," but Frankl says his psychiatric terms were developed independently...
...prejudice. And may those no longer young learn from the parents of this brave couple. They showed us all that love can indeed be blind-blind to ignorant assumptions and fears. I'm optimistic enough to back up my faith in their future and ours with Teilhard de Chardin's prediction: "Today something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting...