![]() ![]() ![]() In the 1960s many Americans found his book The Phenomenon of Man and other mystical writings appealing. ![]() They satisfied many who were looking for ways to reconnect with nature and one another who wanted to revitalize and make personal the spiritual part of life and who hoped to tame, humanize, and spiritualize science. Though controversial, his organismic ideas offered an alternative to reductionistic, dualistic, mechanistic evolutionary views. Born in France, the priest worked for much of his adult life as a scientist in China, including participation on the dig that uncovered “Peking Man.” Merging Catholicism and science, Teilhard asserted that evolution was God's ongoing creative act, that matter and spirit were one, and that all was converging into one complete, harmonious whole. This chapter profiles the life and work of Jesuit priest and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. ![]()
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