Teilhard in the 21st Century

Almost fifty years after his death the work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French Jesuit mystic and scientist, continues to shape contemporary work in spirituality, theology, and the interaction of science and religion. These essays show how this giant of the twentieth century sheds light on the most urgent spiritual challenges of our time. Book jacket.

Introducing the American Teilhard Association and Teilhard Studies

vii

Acknowledgments xi Contributors and Editors

xiii

Introduction

JOHN GRIM AND MARY EVELYN TUCKER

1

(14)

Part One Teilhard: His Life and Thought

1. Teilhard de Chardin A Short Biography

JOHN GRIM AND MARY EVELYN TUCKER

15

(11)

2. A New Creation Story

The Creative Spirituality of Teilhard de Chardin

DONALD P. GRAY

26

(7)

3. Teilhard's Unity of Knowledge

THOMAS M. KING, S.J.

33

(11)

4. The Letters of Teilhard de Chardin and Lucile Swan

A Personal Interpretation

URSULA KING

44

(13)

5. Teilhard in the Ecological Age

THOMAS BERRY

57

(20)

Part Two An Ecology for the 21st Century

6. The New Story

Comments on the Origin, Identification, and Transmission of Values

THOMAS BERRY

77

(12)

7. Education and Ecology

Earth Literacy and the Technological Trance

MARY EVELYN TUCKER

89

(14)

8. Sustainable Development and the Ecosphere Concepts and Principles

WILLIAM E. REES

103

(24)

Part Three Cosmogenesis

9. The New Natural Selection

BRIAN SWIMME

127

(11)

10. The Texture of the Evolutionary Cosmos Matter and Spirit in Teilhard de Chardin

KATHLEEN DUFFY, S.S.J.

138

(16)

11. Teilhard 2000

The Vision of a Cosmic Genesis at the Millennium

ARTHUR FABEL

154

(13)

Part Four Theological and Social Dimensions

12. Liberation Theology and Teilhard de Chardin

EULALIO BALTAZAR

167

(14)

13. Chaos, Complexity, and Theology

JOHN F. HAUCHT

181

(14)

14. Divine Wisdom

Her Significance for Today

ELEANOR RAE

195

15. The Creative Union of Person and Community A Geo-Humanist Ethic

JOSEPH A. GRAU

209

(13)

Notes

222

(24)

A Bibliography of Teilhard's Published Works in English

246

(2)

An Annotated Teilhardian Bibliography for the 21st Century

248

(4)

Index

252

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