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Name:
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Dates:
Born: May 1, 1881 in Orcines, France
Died: April 10, 1955
Ordained a priest: August 24, 1911
Specialization:
Paleontology
Philosophy
Theology
Biography:
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a Jesuit priest who was unusual active in paleontology and
the research into the search for the origins of the human species - he was even present at
the discovery of Peking Man. He worked on paleontological expeditions to both Africa and
China and served as a professor of geology at the Institut Catholique in Paris, France.
This work in paleontology and geology seem to have had an important impact upon his theological thinking and his writings reveal attempts to combine traditional theology with modern scientific principles and discoveries. He even treated Christianity itself as a system which evolved into greater and greater complexity and higher levels of consciousness. The orthodoxy of his writings came under scrutiny and he had to answer questions before the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He also refrained from publishing many of his ideas while he was still alive, entrusting them with non-clerical friends for publication after his death.
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