Teilhard and the Future of Humanity

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n o t e s feeding the zest for life: spiritual energy resources for the future of humanity Ursula King 1. Teilhard de Chardin, The Future of Man, trans. Norman Denny (London: Collins, 1964), 7. 2. Teilhard de Chardin, The Human Phenomenon, trans. Sarah Appleton -Weber (Brighton and Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 1999). 3. I have discussed these in detail in my essay, ‘‘Teilhard’s Association with the World Congress of Faiths, 1947–50’’ in Ursula King, The Spirit of One Earth: Reflections on Teilhard de Chardin and Global Spirituality (New York: Paragon House, 1989), 135–46; see also chap. 4 in my book Towards a New Mysticism: Teilhard de Chardin and Eastern Religions (London: Collins; New York: Seabury Press, 1980). 4. Teilhard de Chardin, The Future of Man, 185–92. 5. Ibid., 190. 6. Ibid., 193–95. 7. Ibid., 194. 8. See Teilhard de Chardin, Activation of Energy (London: Collins, 1970), 229–43. 9. Ibid., 231–32. 10. Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart (Boston: Beacon Press, 1981), 134. 11. The Human Phenomenon, 161. 12. Eduard Suess, The Face of the Earth, 5 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1904–24). Popular as a textbook in geology for many years, this is a translation of his work Das Antlitz der Erde, published 1883–1901. 157 158 Notes to Pages 8–14 13. See ‘‘La face de la terre,’’ Études 169 (1921): 585–602; translated as ‘‘The Face of the Earth,’’ in Teilhard de Chardin, The Vision of the Past (London: Collins, 1966), 26–48. The quotation given here forms part of an excerpt of this essay reproduced in a somewhat different translation in Teilhard de Chardin, Hymn of the Universe (London : Collins Fount Paperbacks 1986), 75; the text in The Vision of the Past is slightly different. 14. See his article ‘‘The Formation of the Noosphere: A Biological Interpretation of Human History,’’ in The Future of Man, 155–84. 15. Paul R. Samson and David Pitt, eds., The Biosphere and Noosphere Reader: Global Environment, Society and Change (London and New York: Routledge, 1999). 16. Ibid., 181. 17. Ibid., 186. 18. Published in his book Human Energy (London: Collins, 1969), 19–47. 19. Ibid., quotation at 19, note 1. 20. Ibid., quotations at 27–29, 31, 37. 21. Ibid., 35. 22. Ibid., 31. 23. Ibid., 32. 24. Ibid., 33–34. 25. Ibid., 35 (my translation). 26. The French original reads ‘‘l’amour d’interliaison, au-dessus de l’amour d’attrait.’’ See L’énergie humaine, vol. 6 of Oeuvres, 44. 27. Ibid., 38. 28. This as well as the previous quotations are from L‘energie humaine , 37f. 29. Ibid. 30. Human Energy, 44. 31. Teilhard de Chardin, Man’s Place in Nature (London: Collins, 1966), 118. 32. Ibid. 33. Found in the book of the same title; see Human Energy, 113–62. 34. Activation of Energy, 236. 159 Notes to Pages 15–24 35. Ibid., 238. 36. Ibid., 241. A fuller discussion of this is found in King, Towards a New Mysticism: Teilhard de Chardin and Eastern Religions. 37. Activation of Energy, 242. I have discussed Teilhard’s understanding of love in my article ‘‘Love—A Higher Form of Human Energy in the Work of Teilhard de Chardin and Sorokin,’’ in Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 39, no. 1 (2004): 77–102. 38. Thomas Berry, The Great Work: Our Way into the Future (New York: Bell Tower, 1999). 39. Robert Muller, New Genesis: Shaping a Global Spirituality (New York: Doubleday, 1982). 40. The Human Phenomenon, 161. god and the human future Thomas M. King, S.J. 1. Teilhard de Chardin, Writings in Time of War (New York: Harper and Row, 1968), 179. 2. Teilhard de Chardin, The Heart of Matter, trans. René Hague (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979), 176–77. 3. Ibid., 178. 4. Ibid., 173. 5. Ibid., 179; see also Writings in Time of War, 291. 6. Ibid., 176. 7. Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man, trans. Bernard Wall (New York: Harper and Row, 1959), 110. 8. Teilhard de Chardin, Writings in Time of War, 231. 9. Teilhard de Chardin, The Heart of Matter, 176. 10. Ibid., 178. 11. Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man, 251, 246. 12. Ibid., 269. 13. Teilhard de Chardin, Christianity and Evolution, trans. René Hague (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971), 124. 14. Teilhard de Chardin, Human Energy, trans. J. M. Cohen (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...