[lit-ideas] Re: Anti-Humanism & Its Enemies
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:19:56 -0500
>>Where between these is a reasonable "environmentalist" position?
You might like Teilhard de Chardin's _The Divine Milieu_. I'm currently
writing a review of a guidebook to that opus. Chardin, a Jesuit systems
thinker before the term "systems philosophy" was fashionable, proposes
panentheism ... that everything is inside of God but only a subset of
God. Think Ken Wilbur in Christian terms decades before Wilbur.
Hence the natural world is complexifying and evolving in order to grow
the complete body of the Risen Christ or Christos (substitute Brahman if
you are alienated). Parousia becomes the Omega Point of evolution.
In the book, Chardin sought to unify science and Christian theology.
Hardliners will claim he multiplies unnecessary hypotheses to do so, but
thoughtful believers can assimilate his view to avoid leaping into
absurd versions of creationism.
One therefore becomes careful steward of the complex macro-structure
that is growing the body of the Risen Christ. People are careful. Thugs
make money. Air goes in and out of lungs. Everybody's a winner.
Eric
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