Spirituality and Teilhard de Chardin

Spirituality and Teilhard de Chardin By Louis Savary

Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French Jesuit priest who died in 1955, offered the first Christian spirituality that fully integrated Christian doctrine with modern scientific and evolutionary findings.

For starters, Teilhard pointed out that divine revelation did not begin with Abraham or even the first humans. The discoveries of science show us, says Teilhard, that God has been revealing God's self from the first moment of the Big Bang. We now know that that first burst of creation from God goes back almost 14 billion years, while human civilization has only been around for less than 30,000 years. (Civilized homo sapiens accounts for only about 0.000002 of that time, a two-millionth part of the whole divine revelation story.)