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Celebrating Teilhard de Chardin

Pioneer in the Dialogue between Religion and Science, Three Free Public Lectures by Dr. Ursula King (University of Bristol, UK)

Santa Clara University Announces

Celebrating Teilhard de Chardin

Pioneer in the Dialogue between Religion and Science

by Dr. Ursula King (University of Bristol, UK)

Sixty years after the death of the great Jesuit paleontologist and theologian, these lectures undertake an examination of the roots of his life and thought, his evolutionary mysticism, and a spirituality for our time.

Ursula King, STL (Paris), MA (Delhi) PhD (London), FRSA, is Professor Emerita of Theology and Religious Studies and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol. She has published numerous books and articles, especially on gender issues in religions, method and theory, modern Hinduism, interfaith dialogue, spirituality, and on the thought of Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin.

These lectures are sponsored by Santa Clara University:  Office of the President, Jesuit School of Theology, Religious Studies Department, Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education, Program in Catholic Studies, Santa Clara Jesuit Community; and by the Catholic Community at Stanford.

Tuesday, April 28
7:00 PM, Gesu Chapel, 1735 LeRoy Avenue, Berkeley, California 94709

“Following the Road of Fire”: The Emergence of Teilhard de Chardin’s Panchristic Mysticism during the First World War. 

Wednesday, April 29
7:30 PM, Santa Clara Mission Church, Santa Clara University

Searching for an Evolutionary Spirituality and New Mysticism in a Global World:  A  Dialogue with Teilhard de Chardin.

Thursday, April 30:
7:30 PM, Memorial Church, Stanford University

The Universe as Epiphany: Teilhard de Chardin’s Discovery of the Heart of God in all Creation.

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