The truth about Teilhard. Introduction by Daniel Lyons, S.J.

46 p.; 17.5 cm. `Conclusion. To understand Teilhard one must realize that the ideology or vision he conceived was simply a very subjective and personal answer to the problem that obsessed his whole life, namely: how to reconcile his love of God with his first love, the love of the World--a problem which involved an other:how to reconcile his religious faith with his positivistic philosophy of life. For him the World was not merely human society; it was the entire universe, mineral,vegetable,animal and human,with the superhuman he thought would evolve,all of which he considered to be basically one and the same. all seem to betray an idolatry of matter & perhaps mental states not comple tely normal.His was not a Catholic mentality.The most popular trends in the thought of the 19th century,belief in progress,optimism about the future of man, collectivism,secularism,scientism & especially evolutionism influences his outlook far more than Catholic theology or philosophy. This explains to some extent his popularity today and his freedom from derisory attacks that another age would surely have visited upon him as a scientific quack.He tho ught he found the answer to his problem by identifying God withthe universe and by twisting and distorting certain Catholic doctrines sothat they would fit upon the rack ofhis evolutionary theory.From this emerged a pantheistic ideology, expressed with sufficient ambiguity and obscurity,so that one can find in it what he wants&ignore what is not to his liking.This new religion of Teilhard isthe answer tothe prayer of those Catholics who are on fire to leave their ancestral home.but who still wish to give lip service to God.' Good, stapled, in orig. wrapper. A few ink markings.…