{"id":18263,"date":"2019-09-04T09:23:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T13:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=18263"},"modified":"2019-09-04T09:23:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T13:23:04","slug":"all-in-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=18263","title":{"rendered":"All-in-Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-Dhxk5ojYHI\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><br><\/strong>Wednesday, September 4, 2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881\u20131955) was a Jesuit paleontologist and mystic whose writings were suppressed by Catholic authorities during his lifetime. Today there\u2019s a growing appreciation for his work which brings science and religion together and mobilizes Christians to participate with God in the process of bringing the universe to its fulfillment in Christ. In particular, we Franciscans resonate with Teilhard. I first discovered him in college in the early 1960s, during the heady years of the Second Vatican Council, and he filled me with a cosmic, earthy vision for my life.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What did Teilhard mean by \u201cthe cosmic Christ\u201d? Dr. Beatrice Bruteau (1930\u20132014) explained:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Teilhard did not really mean that Christ had a \u201cthird nature,\u201d a cosmic one, in addition to his divine and human natures. . . . Teilhard teaches only a cosmic function, significance or presence of Christ, not a cosmic nature. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, it seems clear that Teilhard saw and felt something\u2014and that strongly\u2014for which his traditional language could not offer him any adequate image. He drew heavily from the words of St. Paul when he spoke of \u201cthe Body of Christ\u201d or of Christ\u2019s role with respect to the whole of creation or of his \u201cenergy\u201d which still presses the world-process forward toward its goal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>[Christ] is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible . . .&nbsp; all things were created through him and for him [Colossians 1:15]. . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>But Teilhard felt that the full cosmic significance of this vision and its physical reality had been overlooked among his coreligionists. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Teilhard tried to stress the cosmic aspect and bring it forward as a central motif in the Christian view of reality, his friends were embarrassed. . . . Teilhard apparently had an instinctive grasp of something which he was not free to express under the terms of his tradition. Yet it was a vital feature of his own system, in fact, it was the bond which he so desperately sought between his God in heaven, taught by his religion, and his God in the earth, taught by science and experience in life. The story of his life is the story of his struggle to bring this darkly sensed Mediator into such a form that both sides of him could live with it. It was a terrible conflict, but it produced a great many beautiful fruits both in his writings and in his own character. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The central conception in Teilhard\u2019s notion of the cosmic Christ is that \u201cthe universe forms one natural whole, which finally can subsist only by dependence from [Christ]. That\u2019s the main thing.\u201d [1] Teilhard sees himself as \u201cthe evangelist\u201d of&nbsp;<em>\u201cChrist in the universe,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;one who preaches Christ as containing \u201call the unyielding immensity and grandeur of the world.\u201d [2] His \u201cfundamental vision\u201d [3] as expressed in&nbsp;<em>The Divine Milieu<\/em>&nbsp;is of Christ as All-in-everything, in its reality and in its future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, September 4, 2019 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881\u20131955) was a Jesuit paleontologist and mystic whose writings were suppressed by Catholic authorities during his lifetime. 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