Re: Teilhard de Chardin - new documentary

On Mon, 27 May 2024 12:29:51 +0000, *Hemidactylus*
<ecphoric@allspamis.invalid> wrote:



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As Canzona offers: "[Slattery] overstates the enthusiasm for Teilhard
studies. While Teilhard was extremely fashionable when his work first burst
onto the scene in the 1960s, there was a significant downturn afterward."
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"Slattery asks why scholars have not written about Teilhard and racism. The
most obvious answer is that too few scholars are writing about Teilhard in
general."
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Aside from uncritical groupies not many are that interested in Teilhard.

Yet another unwarranted conclusion.

The last 3 popes have all highlighted Teilhard's ideas and included
them in their own writing.

The Archbishop of Canterbury used a quote from Teilhard at a Royal
Wedding in Westminster Abbey - doesn't get much higher profile than
that.

A search on Google Scholar for items about Teilhard published in the
last 5 years returns 12,800  results.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2019&q=teilhard&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5

A search on Amazon books for "Teilhard" gives on the first page alone,
7 books by other authors about him and his work that have been
published in the last 5 years along with the reissue of 2 of his
original books. I haven't bothered to check beyond the first page.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=teilhard&i=stripbooks-intl-ship&crid=Z6LVEEF31RU8&sprefix=teilhard%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C173&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

Seems a few more than you realise are interested in him. You really
need to learn to do a modicum of research before making statements
that you think *should* be true or would like to be true.

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