TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Pierre [Sarcenat, Puy-de-Dôme, 1881 - Ne - Lot 451

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TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Pierre [Sarcenat, Puy-de-Dôme, 1881 - Ne - Lot 451
TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Pierre [Sarcenat, Puy-de-Dôme, 1881 - New-York, 1955], écrivain français Rare correspondence of 15 letters: 11 typewritten signed letters and 4 autograph signed letters. 1950 to 1954; mainly in-4° formats. We shall quote some passages from this correspondence: "The Christian (or Western) attitude is the only true solution to the problem of universal unification which has always been posed by human mysticism (i.e., the highest form of thought) in all latitudes. [...] The well-understood monotheistic current (which is nothing other than the aspiration to the monism of convergence and love I've just described to you, can't develop within a universe in an experimental state of Noogenesis (or if you prefer, of Hominization) without "christifying" itself equitably (Christ being the historically and phyletically appeared expression of the Omega Point)". - "In my perspective of a Universe where Redemption appears common even in the face of Cosmogenesis, it seems to me that Redemption acquires its maximum value! I consider this kind of fascination that attracts so many minds to the catastrophic, to be in-objective and even morbid, as more dramatic and existential (!?) than the critic." - "I guess the meaning is "By virtue of its cosmic role, which is to construct physiqt. and psychologt. A universe in a state of convergent evolution... "Christian marriage has as its higher purpose"..." - "Problem of Evil. I insist with ever-increasing conviction that, in a Universe in a state of "evolutionary creation" (i.e. under the regime of Cosmogenesis), the intellectual problem of Evil no longer arises." - "I am incapable of directing you in the choice of a guide, to make you psychoanalyze." - "I believe it would be an illusion to base "apologetics" on the theories of the expanding universe." "Unfortunately, I don't know enough about Gestalt theory: but I'm afraid I feel (as with existentialists of all stripes, or "phenomenalists" germane to it) a certain metaphysics that I abhor." - "Still the old question of 'spiritualism', but perhaps soon to be sc
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