Unless it receives a new blood transfusion from matter, Christian spirituality may well lose its vig

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The age of nations is past. The task before us
now, if we would not perish, is to build the
earth. -- Teilhard de Chardin
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin1881 - 1955
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Beyond a Divided World
Teilhard sought to unify

• Spirit and Matter
• Science and Religion
• The Sacred and the Profane
• The Past and the Future

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Human Role in Evolution

• there is an absolute direction of growth, to
  which both our duty and our happiness demand that
  we should conform. It is the human function to
  complete cosmic evolution.

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I believe that the universe is an evolution. I
believe that evolution proceeds towards spirit. I
believe that spirit is fully realized in a form
of personality. I believe that the supremely
personal is the universal Christ.
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Energy being transformed into Presence
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COSMOGENESIS

• Biogenesisthe genesis of life
• Anthropogenesisthe genesis of human species
• Noogenesisthe genesis of thought emerging into
  spirit
• Christogenesis the genesis of the total Christ

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What is gravity? Why does it do what it does?
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The force of attraction that exists between all
bodies in the universe.
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Driven by the force of lovethe fragments of the
worldseek each other that the worldmay come
into being.
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The Life Span of the Universe the
beginning differentiation
complexification consciousness
---------------------- extreme
complexification a change of state
matter- energy transformed into spirit
driving toward unity union of all
with the divine LOVE
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LOVE OMEGA POINT
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But what is Love?
Love is attraction.
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The whole future of the Earth, as of religion,
seems to me to depend on the awakening of our
faith in the future.
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Union with God
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What scriptures did he point to when talking
about the future?
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Rev 2213 Christ is the alpha and the omega.
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To be the alpha and omega, Christ must without
losing his precise humanity, become co-extensive
with the physical expanse of time and space.
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Colossians 115 - 20. He is the image of the
invisible God, the first-born of all creation
for in him all things were created, in heaven and
on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones
or dominions or principalities or authorities --
all things where created through him and for him.
He is before all things, and in him all things
hold together. He is the first-born from the
dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to
dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself
all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making
peace by his death on the cross.
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Ephesians 13 - 14. Blessed be the God and
Creator of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed
us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the
heavenly places, even as God chose us in Christ
before the foundation of the world...For God has
made known to us in all wisdom and insight the
mystery of the divine will, according to the
divine purpose which God set forth in Christ as a
plan for the fullness of time, to unite all
things in Christ, things in heaven and things on
earth.
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Ephesians 110. He planned for the maturity of
the times and the climax of the ages to unify all
things and head them up and consummate them in
Christ..."
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Ephesians 4.13. Building up the body of
Christuntil we come to unity in our faith and in
our knowledge of the Son of God, until we become
the perfect Man, fully mature with the fullness
of Christ himself.
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Love alone is capable of uniting living beings
in such a way as to complete and fulfill them,
for it alone takes them and joins them by what is
deepest in themselves.
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Is God all of you and are you a tiny part of
God?--Sir John Templeton
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The End
The end