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Case
2
Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin, The Heart of Matter
(London: Collins, 1978) trans. René
Hauge, 17--119.
In
The Heart of Matter, Teilhard de
Chardin defines the "the cosmic sense"
or "Christic sense" as the story
of a slow unfolding or evolving within him
of this fundamental and "Protean"
element which takes on ever richer and purer
forms." He first envisioned the idea
of a universal plenitude in geology--the world
of Rocks. This evolved during his theological
training and entry in "the Society of
Jesus" into his awakening to the Cosmic
Life. Teilhard de Chardin came to this vision
of the Cosmic Life while traveling in the
East, when he linked the Animal World with
the Energy World on the Foundation of the
Rock World. Two things allowed him to bring
together his field work and laboratory work
into "a naturally harmonious pattern"
he called the Biosphere. and to envision a
"totalized Mankind--the Noosphere."
The first was his biological research and
the second was the spiritual shock of World
War II.
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Case
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William
Paley, Natural Theology, 1794 |
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Carl
Linnaeus, Nemesis Divina, 1758 |
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George
Gregory, The Economy of Nature, 1804 |
Case
2 |
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Vladimir
Vernadsky, Biosphere and Noosphere, 1939 |
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Pierre
Teilard de Chardin, Human Energy, 1969 |
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Pierre
Teilard de Chardin, The Heart of Matter,
1978 |
Case
3 |
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John
Neale Dalton, The Book of Common Prayer, 1920 |
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Joan
Halifax, The Fruitful Darkness, 1993 |
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Hans
Dirk van Hoogstraten, Deep Economy, 2001 |
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Lynn
Margulis and Dorian Sagan, The Garden of
Microbial Delights, 1993 |
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Nina
Witoszek and Andrew Brennan, eds., Philosophical
Dialogues, 1999 |
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Roger
S. Gottlieb, ed., This
Sacred Earth, 2004 |
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