Teilhard De Chardin-The Divine Milieu Explained

by Savary, Louis M.

• ISBN13: 9780809144846
• ISBN10: 0809144840
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-14
• Publisher: Paulist Pr

Summary

During the twentieth century, Jesuit priest-scientist Pierre Teilhaid de Chardin developed a truly innovative spirituality. By integrating both a comprehensive evolutionary perspective and the discoveries of science into Christian spirituality, Teilhard presented a new way to understand the Word of God and the immensity of the Universal Christ. While many books have explored and explained Teilhard's theology, there has never been a spiritual guide for everyday use of his principles-until now. Savary transforms these challenging and difficult-to-understand concepts into a more accessible spirituality. The Divine Milieu Explained also offers a series of spiritual practices and exercises that integrate science and faith according to Teilhaid's evolutionary spirituality. "His purpose....[was] to see spiritual reality today-in the world contemporary men and women live in. thoroughly informed and transformed by science and technology." Book jacket.

Author Biography

Louis M. Savary has taught courses on the spirituality of Teilhard at St Joseph College in West Hartford, Connecticut

Table of Contents

Author's Foreword	p. ix
Teilhard's Preface to The Divine Milieu	p. 3
Teilhard's Introduction: "In Eo Vivimus"	p. 11
Interlude: Some Premises of Teilhard's Thought	p. 27
The Divinization of our Activities	p. 40
The Undoubted Existence of the Fact and the Difficulty of Explaining It. The Christian Problem of the Sanctification of Action	p. 59
An incomplete Solution: Human Action Has No Value Other Than the Intention Which Directs It	p. 61
The Final Solution: All Endeavor Cooperates to Complete the World "In Christo Jesu"	p. 64
At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord	p. 65
But all reality, even material reality, around each one of us exists for our souls	p. 69
Hence, all sensible reality around each one of us exists, through our souls, for God in our Lord	p. 77
Communion through Action	p. 78
The Christian Perfection of Human Endeavor	p. 80
The Sanctification of Human Endeavor	p. 84
The Humanization of Christian Endeavor	p. 89
Detachment through Action	p. 90
The Divinization of our Passivities	p. 93
The Extent, Depth, and Diverse Forms of Human Passivities	p. 96
The Passivities of Growth and the Two Hands of God	p. 99
The Passivities of Diminishment	p. 104
Our Struggle with God against Evil	p. 107
Our Apparent Failure and Its Transfiguration	p. 110
Communion through Diminishment	p. 114
True Resignation	p. 115
Conclusion to Parts One and Two: Some General Remarks on Christian Asceticism	p. 122
Attachment and Detachment	p. 123
First, Develop Yourself, Christianity Says to the Christian	p. 126
And If You Possess Something, Christ Says in the Gospel, Leave It and Follow Me	p. 130
Thus, in the General Rhythm of Christian Life, Development and Renunciation, Attachment and Detachment Are Not Mutually Exclusive	p. 135
The Meaning of the Cross	p. 142
The Spiritual Power of Matter	p. 153
The Divine Milieu	p. 170
The Attributes of the Divine Milieu	p. 173
The Nature of the Divine Milieu, the Universal Christ, and the Great Communion	p. 200
The Growth of the Divine Milieu	p. 216
The Coming of the Divine Milieu. The Taste for Being and the Diaphany of God	p. 216
Individual Progress in the Divine Milieu: Purity, Faith, and Fidelity - the Operatives	p. 219
The Collective Progress of the Divine Milieu. The Communion of Saints and Charity	p. 229
Epilogue: In Expectation of the Parousia	p. 238
References	p. 259
Index	p. 261
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