{"id":18265,"date":"2019-09-05T09:39:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T13:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=18265"},"modified":"2019-09-05T09:41:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T13:41:32","slug":"at-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=18265","title":{"rendered":"At the Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cosmology: Part Two<br \/>\nAt the Heart<br \/>\nThursday, September 5, 2019<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zOBFI9qXTyo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nIn a recent episode of our podcast Another Name for Every Thing, Brie Stoner, Paul Swanson, and I reflected on why people are so uncomfortable when we say things like \u201cChrist is in all things.\u201d I\u2019ve been accused of being a pantheist, but that\u2019s lazy thinking, a cheap shot. I\u2019m a panentheist. The Christian word for that is incarnationalism, the manifestation of the divine through the natural, physical, and human world. It\u2019s a Christ-soaked world. Jesus\u2014the Word made flesh\u2014comes out of the world rather than into the world. Christ was here all the time. In Christ all of history and all of us are held together. And you do not have to use the word Christ to experience this radical unity! [1]<\/p>\n<p>Read more from Beatrice Bruteau on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin\u2019s view of the cosmic, universal Christ:<br \/>\n\u201cThere exists in all beings,\u201d says Teilhard, \u201ca common centre\u201d through which \u201cthey meet together at a deeper level . . . and we may call this Centre equally well the point upon which they converge, or the ambience in which they float. . . .\u201d This bond of unity constitutes the \u201caxis of all individual and collective life. It is in virtue of that axis that we see that Christ has not only a mystical, but a cosmic body. . . . And this Cosmic Body, to be found in all things . . . is eminently the mystical Milieu; whoever can enter into that milieu is conscious of having made [their] way to the very heart of everything, of having found what is most enduring in it.\u201d [2]<\/p>\n<p>This is, in Teilhard\u2019s view, the cosmic meaning of the divine incarnation. \u201cThe totality of all perfections, even natural perfections, is the necessary basis for that mystical and ultimate organism . . . the plenitude of the incarnate Word. . . . The whole world is concentrated and uplifted in expectancy of union with the divine\u201d. . . . [3]<\/p>\n<p>How can Christ be so universal? \u201cSimply as a magnification, a transformation, realized in the humanity of [Jesus], of the aura that surrounds every human monad.\u201d [4] \u201cThe universe takes on the lineaments of Jesus;\u201d [5] . . . It is through Christ that God \u201canimates the whole complex of exterior events and interior experiences. . . . [Christ] is at the heart of all that moves us.\u201d [6] \u201cChrist is . . . the Shepherd (the Animator) of the Universe.\u201d As \u201cfrom the depths of Matter to the highest peak of the Spirit there is only one evolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So all beings and all works serve \u201cphysically to complete the Body of Christ, whose charity animates and recreates all things.\u201d [7] Teilhard is referring here, no doubt, to the scripture, which, likening Jesus to the Good Shepherd, affirms that there is only \u201cone fold and one shepherd\u201d [John 10:16]. . . . Teilhard summarizes his position and his faith this way:<br \/>\nI believe that the universe is an evolution.<br \/>\nI believe that evolution proceeds towards spirit.<br \/>\nI believe that in [humanity] spirit is fully realized in person.<br \/>\nI believe that the supremely personal is [also] the Universal Christ. 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