Word: teilhardisms
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...work in his beloved Paris, surrounded by few friends. He died at 73, on Easter Sunday, in 1955. The earth at the cemetery near Poughkeepsie was still frozen; when he was finally buried, only gravediggers were in attendance. Yet the gaunt figure of this French priest in exile, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, looms large over the intellectual history of 20th century Catholicism...
...11th century. Other curious paradoxes mark his career. He is both a dedicated socialist and a millionaire. Despite his fidelity to Druze beliefs, he was educated at Roman Catholic schools, and studied law and philosophy at the Sorbonne. He knew and was deeply influenced by Jesuit Theologian-Anthropologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, quotes Thomas Aquinas frequently, and is respected as an authority on the mysticism of St. John of the Cross. He is also a practitioner of yoga and a published poet to boot...
Martin, a former Jesuit professor and religion editor of The National Review, also takes a dim view of any deviation from orthodox Catholicism. The French theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who tried to rationalize evolution and scientific discovery with Christianity, is attacked for contributing in a roundabout way to the possession of two priests because of his potentially heretical views. All of the hero figures in the book--the exorcists--are not intellectuals; they are middle-aged plodders from rural backgrounds, deeply rooted in god, country and Church...
Borrowing a leaf from the evolutionary theme of French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the theologians interpret human history as an upward curve, with God acting with man in a cooperative process of liberating humanity and the world. Sin is anything that resists or undercuts this process, or any oppression of one person-or group-by another. Salvation lies in a commitment to love of neighbor and thus a willingness to fight oppression, with revolution if need be. Camilo Torres, the Colombian guerrilla priest who was shot down by government troops in 1966, is the folk hero of liberation theology...
...typical of Teilhard's evolutionary optimism that he could find virtue even in human combat. "Through the present war," he wrote, "we have really progressed in civilization. To each phase of the world's development there corresponds a certain new profoundness of evil ... which integrates with the growing free energy for good...