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Teilhard
de Chardin -1881 to 1955
Pantheist,
mystic, evolutionist, contemplative |
Pantheist
[God is all and in all.] |
"All
around us, to right and left, in front and behind, above and below,
we have only to go a little beyond the frontier of sensible appearances
in order to see the divine welling up and showing through. But it is
not only close to us, in front of us, that the divine presence has revealed
itself. It has sprung up universally, and we find ourselves so surrounded
and transfixed by it, that there is no room left to fall down and adore
it, even within ourselves." Teilhard de Chardin
"The
outcome of the world, the gates of the future, the entry into the super-human--these
are not thrown open to a few of the privileged nor to one chosen people
to the exclusion of all others. They will open only to an advance of
all together, in a direction in which all together can join and find
completion in a spiritual renovation of the earth..."
(The Phenomenon
of Man, 1955, p. 245)
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Contemplative Spirituality: A belief system that
uses ancient mystical practices to induce altered states of consciousness
(the silence) and is rooted in mysticism and the occult but often wrapped
in Christian terminology. The premise of contemplative spirituality
is pantheistic (God is all) and panentheistic (God is in all). Common
terms used for this movement are "spiritual formation," "the
silence," "the stillness," "ancient-wisdom,"
"spiritual disciplines," and many others.
Spiritual Formation: A movement that has provided a platform and a channel through which contemplative prayer is entering the church. Find spiritual formation being used, and in nearly every case you will find contemplative spirituality. In fact, contemplative spirituality is the heartbeat of the spiritual formation movement. |
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