Projected publication date: Nov/Dec 2024

The following is from Chapter IV:

The division of this study

All things considered, Teilhard merely explains, from multiple aspects, his one foundational intuition: the spiritual evolution of the Materia matrix culminating in the Omega point, which is Christ in his plenitude. It seems to me that his premise of choice was neither philosophy nor science in the classical sense of these disciplines, but to use his religious faith in the traditional Christ, which is then expanded and transformed into the Universal Christ. For Teilhard, this belief in its totality is fundamental, central, and dominant, encompassing the All of the universe—Center and the Sphere.

But Teilhard is not only a cosmo-mystical believer. He is also the philosopher of a phenomenological vision. His system can be called a creative union. This vision is certainly not severed from his faith in the Universal Christ, rather it is the “ultra-physical” aspect. One could say it is rational—in fact, one must say as much. Teilhard posits, that, although not without its impasses, clashes, or failures, the Universe develops and expands, as a whole in a harmonious way, from the “believable nothingness” to the Omega point in the axis and under the authority of the law of evolution, complexity, and conscience. 

The three fundamental elements of the Teilhardian synthesis that exist at the speculative level are a faith in the Universal Christ, a phenomenological vision, and, logically coming from this vision, a cosmic-dogmatic theology that affirms the cosmic nature of Christ the evolutionist. It is logical to have a faith, a vision, and a dogma. It is classical: Every theology is a confluence of reason and faith, and develops, if possible, to improve the conception and formulation of what one believes.

The first volume is dedicated to the Faith in the Universal Christ. Under the title of the Cosmic and Christic Vision, the second volume will essentially focus on the Phenomenological Vision of the Creative Union and on the Evolutive Christic Cosmic Dogma. The third volume, For and Against, will be an echo of the varied reactions brought about by Teilhard either as a transformer at the scientific level or as a religious thinker. A general conclusion will attempt to situate him as a philosopher and theologian in order to answer the emerging question, whether it is a Christian or Teilhardian faith. Entitled Evolutionist Catechesis, the fourth volume (in preparation [never completed])  will address original sin, redemption, the Eucharist, and the third, cosmo-mystic way. 

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