The Divine Milieu

by De Chardin, Pierre T.

• ISBN13: 9780060937256
• ISBN10: 0060937254
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-22
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

The essential companion to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenom of Man, The Divine Milieu expands on the spiritual message so basic to his thought. He shows how man's spiritual life can become a participation in the destiny of the universe. Teilhard de Chardin -- geologist, priest, and major voice in twentieth-century Christianity -- probes the ultimate meaning of all physical exploration and the fruit of his own inner life. The Divine Milieu is a spiritual treasure for every religion bookshelf.

Table of Contents

Foreword Teilhard de Chardin: The Man	xiii
Preface	3	(4)
Introduction: ``In Eo Vivimus''	7	(4)
PART ONE THE DIVINISATION OF OUR ACTIVITIES	11	(28)
The Undoubted Existence of The Fact and the Difficulty of Explaining It: The Christian Problem of the Sanctification of Action	12	(3)
An Incomplete Solution: Human Action Has No Value Other Than the Intention Which Directs It	15	(4)
The Final Solution: All Endeavour Cooperates to Complete the World in Christo Jesu	19	(7)
At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God in our Lord	20	(1)
``In our universe,'' we went on to say, ``in which each soul exists for God, in our Lord, all that is sensible, in its turn, exists for the soul.''	21	(4)
We can now bring together the major and minor of our syllogism so as to grasp the link between them and the conclusion	25	(1)
Communion Through Action	26	(2)
The Christian Perfection of Human Endeavour	28	(7)
The sanctification of human endeavour	29	(3)
The humanisation of christian endeavour	32	(3)
Detachment Through Action	35	(4)
PART TWO THE DIVINISATION OF OUR PASSIVITIES	39	(24)
The Extent, Depth and Diverse Forms of Human Passivities	40	(1)
The Passivities of Growth and the Two Hands of God	41	(5)
The Passivities of Diminishment	46	(17)
Our struggle with God against evil	50	(1)
Our apparent failure and its transfiguration	51	(5)
Communion through diminishment	56	(1)
True resignation	57	(6)
CONCLUSION TO PARTS ONE AND TWO SOME GENERAL REMARKS ON CHRISTIAN ASCETICISM	63	(20)
Attachment and Detachment	63	(7)
First, develop yourself, Christianity says to the Christian	64	(1)
And if you possess something, Christ says in the Gospel, leave it and follow me	65	(2)
Thus, in the general rhythm of christian life, development and renunciation, attachment and detachment, are not mutually exclusive	67	(3)
The Meaning of the Cross	70	(5)
The Spiritual Power of Matter	75	(8)
PART THREE THE DIVINE MILIEU	83	(46)
The Attributes of the Divine Milieu	84	(9)
The Nature of the Divine Milieu. The Universal Christ and the Great Communion	93	(9)
The Growth of the Divine Milieu	102	(27)
The coming of the divine milieu. The taste for being and the diaphany of God	102	(4)
Individual progress in the divine milieu: purity, faith and fidelity---the operatives	106	(10)
The collective progress in the divine milieu. The communion of saints and charity	116	(13)
Epilogue In Expectation of the Parousia	129	(8)
Index	137