Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

by Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre

• ISBN13: 9781570752483
• ISBN10: 1570752486
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: Orbis Books

Table of Contents

Sources	7	(1)
Permissions	8	(1)
Introduction: THE HEART OF TEILHARD DE CHARDIN'S SPIRITUALITY	9	(18)
1. DISCOVERING THE DIVINE IN THE DEPTHS OF BLAZING MATTER	27	(28)
A Particular Way of Seeing Everything	30	(1)
Cosmic Sense -- A Sense of Plenitude	31	(4)
Awakening to Cosmic Life	35	(3)
Discovery of Evolution	38	(3)
The Spiritual Power of Matter	41	(5)
Communion with the Earth, the Great Mother	46	(3)
Immersed in God's Creative Action	49	(6)
2. LIVING IN THE DIVINE MILIEU	55	(27)
The Human Being within the Universe	58	(3)
Creative Union: From the Multiple to Omega	61	(4)
The Fundamental Importance of the Human Phenomenon	65	(4)
The Divine Milieu and Its Attributes	69	(5)
The Divinization of Activities	74	(2)
The Divinization of Passivities	76	(4)
The Mass on the World	80	(2)
3. CHRIST IN ALL THINGS	82	(38)
Christ as Universal Element	84	(5)
Attributes of the Universal Christ	89	(3)
Super-Christ and Christ-Omega	92	(7)
Christ's Heart -- Universal Center of Energy and Fire	99	(4)
Vision of Christ in the Universe	103	(4)
God's Omnipresence Revealed through the Person of Jesus	107	(2)
Prayers to the Ever-Greater Christ	109	(5)
The Christified Universe	114	(3)
Universal Communion	117	(3)
4. THE AWAKENING AND GROWTH OF THE SPIRIT IN THE WORLD	120	(45)
The Summons of the Spirit within Human Aspirations	124	(4)
Feeding the Zest for Life within Humanity	128	(4)
God as Spiritual and Personal Center of Cosmic Evolution	132	(4)
The Role of Religions within the Development of the World	136	(7)
The Transformative Power of Christian Faith	143	(2)
Transforming Suffering into Spiritual Energy	145	(3)
Finding Happiness through Being Centered	148	(4)
The Energies of Love and Sexual Attraction	152	(7)
Love and Union as Central to Christianity	159	(6)
Postscript: THE HEART OF TEILHARD'S FAITH QUESTIONED AND REAFFIRMED	165
The Religion of Tomorrow: Awakening of Spirit and Vision of Christ	166	(4)
Love's Threefold Dream: Union with God through Communion with the Real	170