Christogenesis: The Development of Teilhard's Cosmic Christology
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Year:
- 2009
- Journal Title:
- Teilhard Studies
- Issue:
- 59
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- Abstract:
As part of his evolutionary cosmological vision, Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin devised an original Christology whose development can be followed in his writings. His main purpose was to establish the person of Christ as the convergent focus of cosmic evolution. Already, in his earliest essays, he spoke of the universal Christ and about the cosmos being centered in him. Once his conception of evolution converging in an Omega Point was established, he identified the Omega Point with Christ, so that the whole process of cosmogenesis becomes a true Christogenesis. A Christic sense of the world, the consequence of Christ’s presence as the enlivener of the evolutionary process, corresponds to a cosmic vision, the consequence of the evolution. Teilhard’s vision was for him not a mere theory, but the motor of his interior life and mission, which, he proclaimed, was to universalize Christ and thus to Christify the universe.
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- Page Range:
- 1–26
- ISSN:
- 0739-2303