Text Box: Teilhard Studies Edition Published by Orbis Books

 

 

Text Box: This This comprehensive volume which spans and draws on many of the contributions of the American Teilhard Association over the past 25 years is now available. It can be purchased from orbisbooks.com or from amazon.com where a large view of the cover can be downloaded. Here is the book's description from the Orbis Books website.   Almost fifty years after his death the work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French Jesuit mystic and scientist continues to shape contemporary work in spirituality, theology, and the inter­action of science and religion. These essays, drawn from the best of the first twenty-five years of Teilhard Studies, journal of the American Teilhard Association, show how this giant of the twentieth century sheds light on the most urgent spiritual chal­lenges of our time.   The writers represented are a who's who of scholars: Thomas Berry offers reflections on Teilhard and ecology. Brian Swimme explores unsuspected depths of natural selection and its mean­ing for our age. Articles by Ursula King, Donald Gray, and Thomas King offer insights into Teilhard's friendships.with women, the way in which he strove to articulate the unity of knowledge, and his ever-deepening creation spirituality. A brief biography by John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker explores the key moments of Teilhard's development and offers new readers a superb entree into his life and thought. Other authors include William Rees, Arthur Fabel, John Haught, Eulalio Balthasar, Eleanor Rae, and Joseph Grau.            

                                                                                                                      

 

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