PowerPoint Presentation Unless it receives a new blood transfusion from matter, Christian spirituali

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin1881 - 1955
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Why?
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Why is the alphabet in that order?
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Is it because of the song?
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Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the
waves, the tide and gravity, we shall harness for
God the energies of love. Then, for the second
time in the history of the world, man will have
discovered fire.
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Who was he?
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• Born Auvergne, France 1881
• Studied geology and paleontology taught physics
  and chemistry
• Ordained as Jesuit priest 1912
• Sorbonne doctorate 1922
• Paleontology research in China 1923 to 1946
• Legion of Honor 1946
• Died in New York 1955

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The originality of my faith has its source in
two domains that are usually considered
antagonistic. By education and intellectual
formation I belong to the "children of heaven."
But by temperament and professional training I am
a "child of the earth." A natural synthesis
developed between these two influences.
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What was Teilhards view of history?
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Bathe yourself in the ocean of matter plunge
into it where it is deepest and most violent
struggle in its currents and drink of its waters.

For it cradled you long ago in your preconscious
existence and it is that ocean that will raise
you up to God. Teilhard de Chardin
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Touching Earth

• Whenever your feet touch Earth
• you know they are touching
• Where something has died
• or been born.
• Antler
• Earth Prayers

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Lifes History
Now
Then
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Lifes History
Evolution of complex life only in last 570
million years!
Most evolution has taken place ONLY in last 3 of
the age of the universe!
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You Are Here!
Positions at 1700 UT, 1/23/04
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Given Hydrogen, Gravity 15 Billion Years The
Universe Made
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The past has revealed to me how the future is
built.
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How did he think about the role and place of
humankind?
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Unity of Creation

• each of us is perforce linked by all the
  material organic and psychic strands of his being
  to all that surrounds him sic.

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Human Role in Evolution

• there is an absolute direction of growth, to
  which both our duty and our happiness demand that
  we should conform. It is the human function to
  complete cosmic evolution.