Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ: "Research As Adoration"

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin S.J.
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/07/teilhard-de-chardin-sj.html

De Chardin's Wikipedia Entry
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For Jesuit paleontologist, Teilhard de Chardin, science and prayer were intimately connected. "There is less difference than people think between Research and Adoration." 

Or more directly: "Adoration’s real name … is Research." 

In a letter from South Africa, he confided to a friend, ‘I am … in close contact with old mother Earth: and you know that for me there is no better way for rejuvenation and even “adoration." 

De Chardin claimed that without research "there can be no possibility … of real mystical life."

The entire text of "Scientific Research as Adoration: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ (1881-1955)" by Thomas M. King is available at: http://www.theway.org.uk/Back/443King.pdf

Many people do not realize -- and many others do not focus - the central truth that Christian monks routinely devote themselves to research and scholarship. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Irish_Saved_Civilization

"Just Thinking About Science Triggers Moral Behavior"
Scientific American
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/just-thinking-about-science-triggers.html

The prophet Muhammad is quoted as saying:
"The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr."

I can imagine.
And I cannot imagine.

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Lest we forget...
"The Word was made Flesh" 

And "God so loved the world"
that he sent "Himself" into it.

The entire thrust of divinity - at least as we know it -- is in the direction of incarnation, enfleshment, not in the direction of hurrying back to the transcendent Logos.


N.B. The quotation in the above meme is disputed.

"There is neither spirit nor matter in the world; the stuff of the universe is spirit-matter."

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Alan: When I was young it occurred to me that matter is spirit seen from the outside

and that spirit is matter seen from the inside.

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A shout-out to newly-launched http://teilhard.com/ 

(April, 2013)

Alan: It has always struck me as the most miraculous -- and most mundane -- "thing" that love exists.



The American Teilhard Association
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Alan: I have not had opportunity to validate all these quotes.

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