Rev. Pierre Teilhard De Chardin SJ: "Research Is Adoration"

Alan: I have not been able to positively attribute this quotation to de Chardin but I believe it is consistent with his world view.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ: "Research As Adoration"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/scientific-research-as-adoration-pierre.html

Teilhard de  Chardin, SJ 

http: // paxonbothhouses. Blogspot.com/2013/07/teilhard- de-Chardin-sj.html

Teilhard de Chardin SJ

Wikiquotes

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pierre_Teilhard_de_Chardin

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but expressing them. And so we cannot avoid this conclusion: it is biologically evident that to gain control of passion and so make it serve spirit must be a condition of progress. Sooner or later, then, the world will brush aside our incredulity and take this step : because whatever is the more true comes out into the open, and whatever is better is ultimately realized. The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

• "The Evolution of Chastity" (February 1934), as translated in Toward the Future (1975) edited by by René Hague, who also suggests "space" as an alternate translation of "the ether."

Alan: By way of bookending de Chardin's comment above, consider this insight by 20th century intellectual titan, Hannah Arendt: 

"What has come to an end is the distinction between the sensual and the supersensual, together with the notion, at least as old as Parmenides, that whatever is not given to the senses... is more real, more truthful, more meaningful than what appears; that it is not just beyond sense perception but above the world of the senses... In increasingly strident voices, the few defenders of metaphysics have warned us of the danger of nihilism inherent in this development. The sensual... cannot survive the death of the supersensual."  Hannah Arendt

Compendium Of Best Hannah Arendt Posts

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/12/compendium-of-best-hannah-arendt-posts.html

In similar vein, we have Einstein: "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

Alan: I think that not only to survive -- but to thrive -- we must put the suprasensual -- which is to say "the metaphysical" -- first. 

The Quandary We Are In: Hannah Arendt And The Necessary Primacy Of The Supersensual (and what, prithee, do G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis and George Carlin's praise for nuns have to do with it?)

http://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-quandary-we-are-in-hannah-arendt.html

"Since God Doesn't Heal Amputees, Humankind Will. The Future Of Christian Theology"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/07/since-god-doesnt-heal-amputees.html

John Ford, John Wayne, Aquinas And Theosis (Christian Divinization)

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/more-on-theosis.html

Aquinas, St. Symeon The New Theologian And Their Spiritual Kin

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/08/aquinas-stsymeon-new-theologian-and.html

“God became man that man might become God"

Church Father, St. Athanasius 

as 298-373

http://biblethumpingliberal.com/2011/10/28/god-became-man-that-man-might-become-god/

"Theosis, Service And The Future Of Christianity"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/04/theosis-service-and-future-of.html


"Christian" "conservatives" (who are neither) always apply the litmus of worthiness.

These contemporary pharisees are always on the look-out to identify "the undeserving n'er-do-wells" (people who are pretty much co-terminous with "the undeserving poor") in order to do God's judgmental work of shunning "the unwashed" and "the unsaved."

And if you're an infidel, look the hell out!