Teilhard de Chardin

The French Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) was a scientist, mystic, visionary, and one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. With its selected texts on reconciliation, Maalouf's work reaches the very core of Teilhard's mind. Teilhard envisioned a reconciliation of what seem to be contradictory experiences: adoration and intellect, spirit and matter, sacred and secular, religion and science, creation and evolution. In Christ, he recognized the active Agent, the unifying Center, of the creative and redemptive process, and the source of our happiness.

The reader will enjoy a journey with a passionate apostle of the unity of all creation and one of the most engaging and influential figures of our time.

"Only someone like Jean Maalouf, who has sat quietly for many years with the difficult but rewarding texts of Père Teilhard, could have produced such a stunning selection of readings. Chapter by chapter the reader is led by an expert guide to the heart of Teilhard's vision and spirituality, which relentlessly seek to reconcile and unify the unfortunate dichotomies of previous centuries of religious thought. An indispensable introduction to one of the most creative spiritual teachers of the modern period."

Donald P. Gray
Professor of Rel. Studies
Manhattan College