Teilhard de Chardin, SJ

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I hear rages every now and then about how much of a crackpot heretic he supposedly was. Can anyone give a completely unambiguous example? Or is it just people getting upset because he accepted evolution? 😃
 
Well, after all, he was a Jesuit…

(joke, OK?!? just a joke!)
 
The intelligent Jesuit was wise enough to have accepted that the body of man might have evolved from that of a lower creature but maintained that the soul of man cannot be a product of evolution.
This can be supported by the Genesis account of the creation of man that tells us that God molded clay and breathed life into its nostrils.
How long or how short was that molding actually was irrelevant for God who is eternal. It could have be hundreds or thousands of yeas for us, mortal men.
This is what I have gathered from reading the particular work of Fr. Teilhard de Chardin, SJ
 
 
As I recall some of the difficulty was he was in some sense more of a poet at times. And poetry needs be understood as such not as strict empirical science or theology…

He had his great defenders as well as great critics.
 
Yes, Marcus. I don’t see anything wrong with the position of Fr. Teilhard de Chardin, SJ.
 
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