The Education Committee invites you to attend a presentation given by Steve Lyman on Teilhard de Chardin's innovative beliefs/teachings.
Where: Nancy and Bob's home in Petaluma
Address: 2404 Marilyn Circle
Petaluma, California 94954
When: One o'clock on Tuesday, September 17
For background you might like to see "Teilhard, Visionary Scientist", a very good documentary available on PBS, although it is certainly not required watching.
Plan on about two to two and a half hours with light refreshments provided. Please let us know if you can attend.
Please RSVP to Mary FitzGerald at mary@edfitzgerald.com.
This will help Nancy plan seating arrangements. Hope to see you there!
"Teilhard, Visionary Scientist",
Finding the intersection of faith, science and technology
The film presents Teilhard’s message as relevant for our day and its rapidly evolving technology. His focus on the evolution of consciousness resonates with today’s ascent of artificial intelligence (AI).
His writings have also contributed to movements that include ecology, care for the earth, and a hopeful faith, compatible with science. He has inspired followers among believers and non-believers alike.
“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
― Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
These words of Teilhard open the film, framing the journey of the two-hour biographical documentary that spans from his birth on May 1, 1881, in Orcines, France, to his death on Easter Sunday, April 10, 1955, in New York City.
That quote, along with narrating on his death, was “very special for me,” Br. Greg said. “After living with him for two days in a recording both, it was very emotional and enriching. I really tried to rise to the occasion for Frank and Mary because they trusted me with their life’s work. This was a real labor of love for all of us.”
“Teilhard was a spiritual thinker who I think parallels the Franciscan worldview that we see Christ and the incarnate word as the fundamental truth we try to give and share in our bringing the Gospel to others,” noted Br. Greg.
“There’s hardly a retreat, pilgrimage or sermon that goes by where I don’t appeal to this incarnational worldview,” he added. “His view on the role of humanity in relationship to God, the love of creation and the Earth, all of his studies, really demonstrated God’s glory and the power of God’s love in the world. The film really parallels our Franciscan approach to the world and to humanity.”
How to watch "TEILHARD: Visionary Scientist"
“TEILHARD: Visionary Scientist” will be available for national and international streaming for two years, beginning on May 20, 2024, on the free PBS app. Visit PBS.org to download the app, and then search for the film’s title.
More information on how to access the film and on Teilhard de Chardin, including his views on evolution, the feminine, Peking Man, love and the Universal Christ may be found at www.www.TeilhardProject.com.com.
Trailer for the film:
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