Teilhard de Chardin's Birthday

Teilhard de Chardin was born May 1, 1881. He would be 139 years old today.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other
so that the world may come to being. Teilhard de Chardin

“Teilhard de Chardin had a vision for a new world rising up from the old one. … We are the heirs of a brilliant mind who may well be the primary architect of a new church in an emerging world. Through the eyes of Teilhard we see that the old wineskins of Christianity can no longer hold the new wine of our time. The construction of Christian doctrine, including our understanding of God, salvation and redemption, was done in ages past, based on a cosmology that is no longer true.This does not mean that our doctrine is irrelevant; the core principles are still held to be revelatory of divine mystery. Our understanding of those core principles, however, principles of a living God, evokes new insights and dimensions consonant with our place in this expanding universe.” Ilia Delio, From Teilhard to Omega

2 Comments

tony nicholls on May 2, 2020 at 1:24 am

Attending a Zoom conference with Contemplative Outreach at this present moment I am particularly aware of the global impact of COVID 19 pandemic on our world.
In the spirit of Thomas Keating we are aware that the Contemplative state enables one to rest and act at the same time, it is in that spirit that I bear up our world to its creator.
I pray that we might be strengthed to deal with the pervasive attack by
hi technology on the human mind. As we celebrate Teilhard’s vision of the thrust necessary to scale up our universal drive towards Omega Christ

Joe Masterleo on May 3, 2020 at 9:06 am

I have a question for Ilia. Institutional religion has lost its appeal to many, especially those where the role of woman are downplayed and marginalized groups (LGBTQ) are snubbed. The Catholic religion has lost its moral authority via clerical abuse scandals, while spiritual hunger (misplaced) is at an all time high. For sure, a new forward looking cosmology is in order that appears to be evolving, one informed by science and shaped by a future-looking integral theology. Abraham, the prophets and Jesus were all forward looking in this way, recognizing that God was more Omega than Alpha. Consider Isaiah 43:19, “Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?” Truth be told, relatively few recognize, perceive and know it. Most are not alert and present to same. Rather, they’re characterized by gross insensibility along spiritual lines, caught up in amusements, technology, pastimes and forms of entertainment. Question: Throughout Scripture its always a remnant which, by grace, “get” what God is up to in any given era. Jesus called them his “little flock” or “the elect.” How, then, does that biblical pattern square with Teilhard’s vision of a large-scale super-humanized collective evolving along planetary lines? Given the natural resistances in human souls for same, seems that a “grace booster” (a mass awakening) along unprecedented global lines would have to occur in order to move that along. No?

tony nicholls on May 2, 2020 at 1:24 am
Attending a Zoom conference with Contemplative Outreach at this present moment I am particularly aware of the global impact of COVID 19 pandemic on our world.
In the spirit of Thomas Keating we are aware that the Contemplative state enables one to rest and act at the same time, it is in that spirit that I bear up our world to its creator.
I pray that we might be strengthed to deal with the pervasive attack by
hi technology on the human mind. As we celebrate Teilhard’s vision of the thrust necessary to scale up our universal drive towards Omega Christ
Joe Masterleo on May 3, 2020 at 9:06 am
I have a question for Ilia. Institutional religion has lost its appeal to many, especially those where the role of woman are downplayed and marginalized groups (LGBTQ) are snubbed. The Catholic religion has lost its moral authority via clerical abuse scandals, while spiritual hunger (misplaced) is at an all time high. For sure, a new forward looking cosmology is in order that appears to be evolving, one informed by science and shaped by a future-looking integral theology. Abraham, the prophets and Jesus were all forward looking in this way, recognizing that God was more Omega than Alpha. Consider Isaiah 43:19, “Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?” Truth be told, relatively few recognize, perceive and know it. Most are not alert and present to same. Rather, they’re characterized by gross insensibility along spiritual lines, caught up in amusements, technology, pastimes and forms of entertainment. Question: Throughout Scripture its always a remnant which, by grace, “get” what God is up to in any given era. Jesus called them his “little flock” or “the elect.” How, then, does that biblical pattern square with Teilhard’s vision of a large-scale super-humanized collective evolving along planetary lines? Given the natural resistances in human souls for same, seems that a “grace booster” (a mass awakening) along unprecedented global lines would have to occur in order to move that along. No?