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  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Novelist Julian May references Teilhard's work in the novels in her Galactic Milieu series where it is the basis for the galactic consciousness that serves as the political and ethical background for the novels.
Teilhard de Chardin's statement that "Everything That Rises Must Converge" was used as the title for a short story (as well as the title of the book in which it appeared) by Southern writer (and Catholic thinker) Flannery O'Connor.
Teilhard de Chardin and the concept of the noosphere are referred to in the 1992 ambient-house album UFOrb, by The Orb.
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 Learn more about Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (May 1, 1881 - April 10, 1955) was a Jesuit paleontologist and philosopher involved in popularising the concept of the noosphere, and present at the discovery of Peking Man.
Teilhard de Chardin was born in Orcines, close to Clermont-Ferrand, in France.
Teilhard participated in the 1935 Yale-Cambridge expedition in northern and central India with the geologist Helmut von Terra and Patterson, who verified their assumptions on Indian paleolithic civilisations in Kashmir and the Salt Range Valley.
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 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Teilhard de Chardin, a French Jesuit priest, paleontologist and philosopher, was described by Aldous Huxley as "a very remarkable human being." Indeed.
In this sense, while de Chardin can be considered a "humanist" by placing human kind at the center of the universe, so to speak, he did not hold to the humanistic argument (in some circles) that human beings require a separate methodological approach from the natural sciences.
Teilhard de Chardin's cosmology, while he does not explicitly mention such influences, bears remarkable similarity to early Church mystics such as Jacob Boehme and romantic philosophers such as Schelling.
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 Teilhard de Chardin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
J Felix Raj, SJ Teilhard de Chardin of France (1881-1955) is a well-known scientific philosopher who, though disowned by the Church and the Jesuit Order to which he belonged, was truly a passionate champion of Christ.
Teilhard, a prophet, a mystic, a scientific philosopher, and a committed priest, was born in 1881 at an Auvergne in the heart of France.
Teilhard’s Christian dimension where he makes Christ as the meeting point of science and revelation, of the natural and supernatural of the human and divine in one and the same person, is something to be reckoned with.
www.goethals.org /teilhard.htm   (1734 words)

  
 Teilhard de Chardin
Chardin's thesis is deceptively simple, and leads us quickly into deep water, both philosophically and scientifically, for Chardin was that rarest of men, a deep and articulate thinker who was both a master of science and of the spirit.
Chardin maintains that the increase in entropy is just the method of payment to achieve this goal, and that the focus of science has been on the currency changing hands (energy), while ignoring the goods being purchased (information).
Chardin makes a compelling argument that over evolutionary time we see information systems increase in complexity as the consequence of evolution, that this is the only interesting thing that is happening in the universe, and that the concomitant increase in entropy is simply the cost of achieving the real purpose of the exercise.
www.people.cornell.edu /pages/jag8/chardin.html   (3734 words)

  
 Wired 3.06: A Globe, Clothing Itself with a Brain
Teilhard's philosophy of evolution was born out of his duality as both a Jesuit father ordained in 1911 and a paleontologist whose career began in the early 1920s.
Teilhard soon developed a philosophy that married the science of the material world with the sacred forces of the Catholic Church.
Teilhard's premise, that rocks possessed a divine force, was seen as flaky by scientists and outright heretical by the church.
www.wired.com /wired/archive/3.06/teilhard.html   (702 words)

  
 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin -- Philosophy Books and Online Resources
Teilhard's influence and the exceptional response his work has called forth from all quarters, as well as the controversy that it has engendered, are explained principally by his inquiry into the human phenomenon.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a visionary French Jesuit, paleontologist, biologist, and philosopher, who spent the bulk of his life trying to integrate religious experience with natural science, most specifically Christian theology with theories of evolution.
Teilhard was a man possessed of rare vision who was capable of remythologizing his faith to fit the "facts" that his scientific studies convinced him of.
www.erraticimpact.com /~20thcentury/html/pierre_teilhard_de_chardin.htm   (1292 words)

  
 Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Shortly after his return to China, Teilhard was named adviser to the National Geological Survey, and in that capacity he collaborated on research that resulted in the discovery (1929) of Peking man (see Homo erectus).
Teilhard's evolutionism earned him the distrust of his religious superiors, while his religious mysticism made scientific circles suspicious; but despite much opposition—or perhaps because of it—there was an unusually broad popular response to his work after its posthumous publication.
Joseph TEILHARD DE CHARDIN, fr de Pierre, le philosophe et paltologue frans.
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 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin -- Toward a Science Charged with Faith
Teilhard was born and reared in an eighteenth-century manor house located in the barony of Sarcenat near the provincial capital, Auvergne, France.
Teilhard participated with the two Englishmen in their excavations at Piltdown, and in the process his own standing as a promising young paleontologist was established in scientific circles far beyond the precincts of the church.
Teilhard follows science from its origins in the cultures of the ancient world through its period of expansiveness in the nineteenth century when it began to take on all the aspects of a substitute religion.
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 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, paleontologist, Jesuit priest and philosopher, was born in Auvergne, France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, paleontologist, Jesuit priest and philosopher, was born in Auvergne, France
Teilhard described this "Noosphere" as a global network of trade, communication, exchange of knowledge and cooperative research which would ultimately weave into a sphere of collective thought.
Teilhard maintained that humankinds combined achievements, the only realized purpose in the universe, would be secured and advanced through this global network of collective minds.
www.sjsu.edu /depts/Museum/chardin.html   (260 words)

  
 Teilhard de Chardin: Rogue Theologian
De Chardin, who attempted to create a fusion of Christianity and evolutionary theory, taught not so much Catholicism as New Age Hinduism, as his teachings were to all in intents and purposes, pantheism (the belief that God is everything).
De Chardin was a New Ager, possibly one of the first Catholic clerics to fall into this error, and certainly the most influential.
De Chardin was first silenced by the Jesuit order from 1926 and this remained in effect till his death.
www.angelfire.com /ms/seanie/newage/dechardin.html   (1381 words)

  
 Teilhard de Chardin - Publications   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
These essays, which set forth Teilhard's vision of the Christian mystery and the evolving cosmos, include the famous one on Original Sin which was the cause of his banishment to China.
The germs of all of Teilhard's later thought lie in these essays; they are his "intellectual testament." Written in the trenches in the midst of war and death, they are an expression of life, an impassioned vision of the earth and an adoration of God.
Teilhard, in these letters to his closest confident, presents his unmasked face most clearly, infinitely human and attractive.
www.teilharddechardin.org /publications.html   (634 words)

  
 CMC Magazine: Teilhard de Chardin and the Noosphere
Teilhard's science had already convinced him of the validity of evolution as a paradigm fundamental to understanding the meaning of human existence.
Teilhard was convinced that geogenesis moved in the direction of an ever increasing conscious that brought about a biogenesis that evolved in the same direction.
In midst of a particularly ghastly fulfillment of the dictum "War is hell," Pierre Teilhard de Chardin struggled to hold on to a hope for the human future.
www.december.com /cmc/mag/1997/mar/cunning.html   (1887 words)

  
 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French Jesuit paleontologist who died in 1955, is little discussed today.
De Chardin's apparent decline in general estimation (though it is too early in the vortex of time to tell his final estimation), can in part be laid to questions on his scientism, not the least of which was his purported role in the Piltdown Man fossil hoax.
He played a fundamental role in proposing the theory of a noosphere, or global or historical mind, that is on the level of the intellect, as opposed to the geosphere, or nonliving world, and the biosphere, or living world.
radio.weblogs.com /0115044/stories/2002/12/11/pierreTeilhardDeChardin.html   (263 words)

  
 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin WIRED article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Teilhard felt that the spark of divine life he experienced in the Egyptian desert was a force present throughout the evolutionary process, guiding and shaping it every bit as much as the material forces described by physical science.
Teilhard concluded that where radial energy was dominant, the evolutionary process would be characterized by the traditional scientific laws of necessity and chance.
Teilhard wrote, "The living world is constituted by consciousness clothed in flesh and bone." He argued that the primary vehicle for increasing complexity consciousness among living organisms was the nervous system.
www2.gol.com /users/coynerhm/teilhard.html   (2211 words)

  
 Teilhard de Chardin - IS NOOGENESIS PROGRESSING?
The scientific work of Teilhard de Chardin is situated primarily in Asia: discovery of the Peking Man (1929), explorations in India, in Java, participation in the Yellow Crossing (1931, etc.).
Teilhard de Chardin - Quotations from The Phenomenon of Man, English edition, Harper and Row, New York 1975 (Groupe de Caen): Quotations - The Phenomenon of Man : < http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jacques.abbatucci/quotations.htm>.
Teilhard de Chardin: "Is Noogenesis progressing?" (Maria Luiza Glycerio and Janice B. Paulsen) :
www.richmond.edu /~jpaulsen/teilhard/isnoogen.html   (4482 words)

  
 Teilhard de Chardin and his influence
Teilhard taught that Christian Tradition is to be classified among the 'whims and childishness of the earth.' In his book, Stuff of the Universe, Teilhard de Chardin made no secret of the amount of Christian doctrine he was prepared to throw overboard; the very core of dogma had to be reshaped.
Teilhard was often quoted on the floor of the Council and in the opinion of more than one writer had an influence on the outcome of that historical council comparable to that of Pope John XXIII.
'Teilhard had a tremendous vision of the Church as a community of Christian love, where people live together as individuals, yet united in love-total, unbounded, without limit - within the world; a sign of the presence of God, finally and fully as Love.'42 His concept of Baptism was simply an initiation into this community.
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 Amazon.com: The Phenomenon of Man: Books: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Chardin uses both science and theology to support this theory and his dissertation on this is fascinating and thought provoking.
Teilhard was the first person to ever make almost cry over the final jump to reflection found in the simian branch of the tree of life.
Teilhard was rewarded for his synthesis of Materialistic Science with his Faith with accusations of being a psuedo-scientist and a heretic.
www.amazon.com /Phenomenon-Man-Pierre-Teilhard-Chardin/dp/006090495X   (4053 words)

  
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Teilhard's thought was so complex that he had to strive to present it with balanced symmetry in a calm language capable of bearing the most ambitious idea of human destiny.
Teilhard thus envisions the (limitless) phenomenon of humankind in a (limited) phenomenon of space, the space of the globe we inherit, the scene of all our miracles and potentialities.
Teilhard de Chardin was beyond modernism even as he wrote in the first half of the twentieth century, when the modernist viewpoint dominated.
webpages.ursinus.edu /rrichter/teilhard.htm   (2039 words)

  
 Teilhard De Chardin - The Human Phenomenon
The following was published in 1955 by Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, a Jesuit Father and distinguished paleontologist, in his book, Le Phenomene Humain, or The Human Phenomenon (mistranslated in the book from which this was excerpted as "The Phenomenon of Man").
The coalescence of elments and the coalescence of stems, the spherical gemometry of the earth and psychical curvature of the mind harmonising to counterbalance the inidividual and collective forces of dispersion in the world and to impose unification--there at last we find the spring and secret of hominsation.
Teilhard de Chardin in Le Phenomene Humain (The Phenomenon of Man) 1955 Bernard Wall translation.
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 Amazon.co.uk: The Phenomenon of Man: Books: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,Julian Huxley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In particular, Teilhard traces the significance of the phenomenon of human consciousness as part of the cosmic order, and thus the rise of human civilisation as an integral aspect of nature.
Teilhard’s proposal that consciousness is a primary ordering principle of natural evolution therefore clashes with the prejudices of most contemporary thinking.
In the most serious intent to transcend dualism Teilhard de Chardin not only put the bases for a new worldview but also made the most clear distintion between the without of things and the within of things.
www.amazon.co.uk /Phenomenon-Man-Pierre-Teilhard-Chardin/dp/006090495X   (1214 words)

  
 Biographies Info Science : Teilhard de Chardin Pierre
De retour à Paris, il reprend ses études à la Sorbonne et obtient trois licences de sciences naturelles : en géologie, botanique et zoologie.
D'ailleurs, aucun des livres qu'il écrira tout au long de sa vie, en dehors de ses publications purement scientifiques, ne sera publié avant sa mort.
A partir de 1951, Teilhard s'installe à New York ; il se rend plusieurs fois en Afrique du Sud pour participer aux fouilles de gisements australopithèques.
www.infoscience.fr /histoire/biograph/biograph.php3?Ref=82   (541 words)

  
 Teilhard de Chardin is in hell
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, some of which were posthumously published, are being edited and are gaining a good deal of success.
Note: there is an extremely detailed description and refutation of Teilhard's theories by Dietrich von Hildebrand, in the appendix of Trojan Horse in the City of God.
Teilhard de Chardin: On June 30, 1962, the Holy Office issued a monitum (warning) regarding the writings of Father Teilhard de Chardin.
www.tldm.org /news6/teilhard.htm   (685 words)

  
 Teilhard in China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
As stated by Sir Juilian Huxley, founder of the modern evolutionary synthesis, "Teilhard...effected a threefold synthesis-- of the material and physical world with the world of the mind and spirit; of the past with the future; and of variety with unity, the many with the one...".
Teilhard's vision was truly ahead of his time and is becoming more relevant with each passing day.
Compelling article on Teilhard's evolutionism and his struggle to place humankind within rather than apart from nature.
www.chineseprehistory.org /teilhard.htm   (427 words)

  
 Sacred Centers: Articles: Teilhard de Chardin
Teilhard de Chardin passed away a full ten years before James Lovelock ever proposed the "Gaia Hypothesis" which suggests that the Earth is actually a living being, a collosal biological super-system.
Yet Chardin's writings clearly reflect the sense of the Earth as having its own autonomous personality, and being the prime center and director of our future -- a strange attractor, if you will -- that will be the guiding force for the synthesis of humankind.
We are indeed approaching the Omega point that Teilhard de Chardin was so excited about.
www.sacredcenters.com /articles/noosphere.html   (598 words)

  
 René-Éric Dagorn • Teilhard de Chardin, portrait d?une idole oubliée.
On pourrait commencer ce compte-rendu de plusieurs façons.
Malheureusement Teilhard apparaît également dans cette biographie comme en apesanteur, isolé des fondements et des racines idéologiques qui permettent de le comprendre et de le situer dans cette grande ligne de recherche qui a tenté, et ce depuis très longtemps, de concilier science et foi.
Teilhard doit être compris à partir d?une longue tradition de réflexion sur la finalité de la Terre et du cosmos.
www.espacestemps.net /document1601.html   (4529 words)

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