Pierre Teilhard
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Pierre Teilhard (1881 - 1955)

Pierre Teilhard aka Teilhard de Chardin
Born in Château de Sarcenat, Orcines, Puy-de-Dôme, Francemap
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Died at age 73 in New York City, New York, United Statesmap
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His family tree can be seen here:

https://gw.geneanet.org/favrejhas?lang=en&m=A&p=pierre&n=teilhard&siblings=on&notes=on&t=T&v=6&image=on&marriage=on&full=on

However that being said, it looks like at this time none of them are created on wikitree and I am currently not skilled enough to documetna and create a profile in french.

Biography

c1909 he met Charles Dawson, well known today as the forger behind The Piltdown Hoax . Teilhard then a comparative newcomer to geology, started his academic career as a Lecturer in Physics and Chemistry in Cairo during the years 1906-8 at the College de la Saint Famille. He was a student of theology at the Jesuit College at Hastings from 1908, and his palaeontological enthusiasm was greatly encouraged by Dawson’s help and generosity. His Jesuit friend Felix C Pelletier accompanied him on the excavation work at Piltdown. In Mar 1911 Dawson paid tribute to the ‘patient and skilled assistance’ rendered to him by the two priests since 1909. He was admitted, in 1912, to membership of the Société Geologique de France. [1]

In the summer of 1913 he worked with Dawson and Dr Arthur Smith Woodward. Returning to Hastings after a visit to Paris, he was invited by Dawson to stay at Lewes and to go on to Piltdown to help, when he discovered a canine tooth. October of that year he was back in France. He did not return to England for many years. With the outbreak of the World War I he served as a padre with the French forces and from time to time he wrote to Dawson. [1]

In Paris he was associated with Pierre-Marcellin Boule, the leading French physical anthropologist; he obtained his doctorate in 1920 and from 1922 he was for some years Professor of Geology in the Catholic University of Paris. [1]

Beliefs

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

The profoundly ‘atomic’ character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead

These two quotes epitomize the quest for the truth about our ancestors in a rare way. It captures the beauty that can be found in the decay, the decay of the tragedies of mankind.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a Jesuit Priest who also believed in evolution and found his path to find the balance in his belief in both science and a higher power; loving another human yet abstaining from the physical element, and vocalizing his beliefs that flew in the face of the Catholic church and understanding the need to stand down at the time, and ensuring the legacy of his work was not lost.

He was born in 1 May 1881 in Château of Sarcenat at Orcines, France, he would become a theologian, philosopher, scientist, writer and a palentologist involved in the discovery of the Peking Man

During the course of his life he would fall in love with a women, or so it would appear, but he stayed faithful to his vow of chastity and as a result it was an affair of the heart that would last until the end of his days.

He would spend his final days in New York City, passing away on the 10 april 1955 and he would be buried in the Culinary Institute of America Grounds Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York[2]

The Catholic Church takes a change of view

As with most forward speakers before their time, the Catholic Church has now reversed their view of his work.

Pope Benedict XVI Stated[3]:

And so we can now say that the goal of worship and the goal of creation as a whole are one and the same—divinization, a world of freedom and love. But this means that the historical makes its appearance in the cosmic. The cosmos is not a kind of closed building, a stationary container in which history may by chance take place. It is itself movement, from its one beginning to its one end. In a sense, creation is history. Against the background of the modern evolutionary world view, Teilhard de Chardin depicted the cosmos as a process of ascent, a series of unions. From very simple beginnings the path leads to ever greater and more complex unities, in which multiplicity is not abolished but merged into a growing synthesis, leading to the "Noosphere" in which spirit and its understanding embrace the whole and are blended into a kind of living organism. Invoking the epistles to the Ephesians and Colossians, Teilhard looks on Christ as the energy that strives toward the Noosphere and finally incorporates everything in its "fullness". From here Teilhard went on to give a new meaning to Christian worship: the transubstantiated Host is the anticipation of the transformation and divinization of matter in the christological "fullness". In his view, the Eucharist provides the movement of the cosmos with its direction; it anticipates its goal and at the same time urges it on.

Follow by Fr. Federico Lombardi, a Vatican Spokesman, making a statement in 2009[4]

"By now, no one would dream of saying that [Teilhard] is a heterodox author who shouldn’t be studied."

Scientific Involvement

He was train as a paleontologist and was among those who disovered the [5]. the remains were first discovered in the 1921-1927 Zhoukoudian excavations and estimated to be about 250,000-400,000 in age.

Philosophical Life

He choose to abandon the literal interrepation of the bible, instead seeking out a metaphysical interpretation. This resulted in a ban on his publications, until after this death. He believed the human race was headed towards an "Omega Point", and beoming closer to the ultimate union with god through our increasec omplexity and inter-connectedness[6].

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Piltdown forgery by Weiner, J.S.Publication date 1955 Page 89
  2. Find A Grave: Memorial #6725251 Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6725251/pierre-teilhard_de_chardin : accessed 30 March 2022), memorial page for Rev Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1 May 1881–10 Apr 1955), Find a Grave Memorial ID 6725251, citing Culinary Institute of America Grounds, Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York, USA ; Maintained by Find a Grave .
  3. Ratzinger, Joseph Cardinal; Pope Benedict XVI (11 June 2009). The Spirit of the Liturgy (Kindle Locations 260–270). Ignatius Press. Kindle Edition.
  4. Allen, John (28 July 2009). "Pope cites Teilhardian vision of the cosmos as a 'living host'". National Catholic Reporter. Retrieved January 30 20185.
  5. Peking Man
  6. https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Pierre_Teilhard_de_Chardin




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Teilhard is actually his family name, not one of his given names (son of Emmanuel Teilhard, aka Teilhard de Chardin). Thank you.

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