Something Different
Here again we find Teilhard plunging into the unknown, risking the security of his childhood faith, allowing himself to doubt all that had supported his spiritual life up to this point, so that he would be free enough to experience his depths. As he reversed his direction from overconfidence in dogmas, he found that instead of losing his faith, he was reading the scripture through a new lens. Many passages became more profound. He had again, like Jacob, wrestled with an angel and found himself in a holy place. With each plunge into the depths of his reality, his call deepened and he became more and more impatient to implement the task that was so critically needed for the life of the World and the life of the Church: to preach the good news of Christ-Omega.
-Teilhard's Struggle, Embracing the Work of Evolution, Kathleen Duffy, SSJ
Something Different
Here again we find Teilhard plunging into the unknown, risking the security of his childhood faith, allowing himself to doubt all that had supported his spiritual life up to this point, so that he would be free enough to experience his depths. As he reversed his direction from overconfidence in dogmas, he found that instead of losing his faith, he was reading the scripture through a new lens. Many passages became more profound. He had again, like Jacob, wrestled with an angel and found himself in a holy place. With each plunge into the depths of his reality, his call deepened and he became more and more impatient to implement the task that was so critically needed for the life of the World and the life of the Church: to preach the good news of Christ-Omega.
-Teilhard's Struggle, Embracing the Work of Evolution, Kathleen Duffy, SSJ