![]() ![]() ![]() Then it will review three authors from three major religious traditions who have informed Berry’s understanding that this sacred universe has always had a “psychic spiritual dimension as well as a physical-material dimension”-viz., the Neo-Confucian, Zhou Dunyi the Hindu, Śri Aurobindo Ghose and the Christian, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. This chapter will begin with a brief consideration of the notion that the universe has a psychic-spiritual dimension and is inherently sacred. Although Teilhard’s insights provided a context for Berry’s critical analysis of our understanding of ourselves and our relationship with everything else, many other sources also informed the latter’s reflection on the task of reinventing the human. Paul.” Berry argued that Teilhard, using the newly discovered epic of evolution as cosmological context, “was the first person to describe the universe as having, from the beginning, a psychic-spiritual dimension as well as a physical-material dimension.” Closely associated with this claim are two more of Teilhard’s purported achievements: a positioning of the human within that epic story-that is, that humanity is derived from billions of years of cosmic evolution-and the recognition that the universe story is a sacred story-that is, that we live with a sacred milieu. (1881–1955) gave expression to the greatest transformation in Christian thought since the time of St. When Thomas Berry commented on the contribution of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to theology, he asserted that “Teilhard. ![]()
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