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The long appearance of the Russian novel Doctor Zhivago at the top of the nation's best seller list has given Boris Pasternak's masterpiece time to arouse the interest of the political, literary, cultural, and religious world. Since its first publication in Europe in 1954, it has created an international stir in major areas of human thought.

Front Cover -- Front Matter -- Half Title -- By Pierre Teilhard de Chardin -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Note on the Physical Union Between the Humanity of Christ and the Faithful in the Course of Their Sanctification -- On the Notion of Creative Transformation -- Note on the Modes of Divine Action in the Universe -- Fall, Redemption, and Geocentrism -- Note on Some Possible Historical Representations of Original Sin -- Pantheism and Christianity -- Christology and Evolution -- How I Believe -- Some General Views on the Essence of Christianity -- Christ the Evolver -- Introduction to the Christian Life -- Christianity and Evolution: Suggestions for a New Theology -- Reflections on Original Sin -- The Christian Phenomenon -- Monogenism and Monophyletism: An Essential Distinction -- What the World is Looking for from the Church of God at this Moment -- The Contingence of the Universe and Man's Zest for Survival -- A Sequel to the Problem of Human Origins: The Plurality of Inhabited Worlds -- The God of Evolution -- My Litany -- Back Matter -- Index -- Books by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin available in Harvest paperback editions from Harcourt, Inc

Includes index. ; Bibliography: p. viii. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Christianity has influenced Western culture more than any factor save human nature itself, and yet its influence is now greatly diminished. Reactions to this have usually taken the form of a Hegelian affirmation that Christianity, having served its historical purpose, is no longer important in itself; a nostalgic conservatism which rejects the culture of modernity simply; or a revivalism which ignores it. An alternative view rests on an analysis of culture and the enlightenment process of secularization to which the Church reacted by closing in on itself until the Second Vatican Council affirmed the legitimate autonomy of the secular. The Church itself, partly to blame for secularization through its practical demystification of nature and attempt to coercively supplant all pre- and non-Christian religious experience, should engage modernity while giving witness to human dignity and promoting a more human culture. Such a constructive recovery of Christian culture must avoid both politicization and moralism.

THE AUTHOR ARGUES THAT IN THE MIDDLE AGES MONARCHY AND REPUBLICANISM WERE NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE; HIERARCHY AND ORGANICISM WERE NOT SPECIFICALLY CHRISTIAN IDEAS AND SHOULD NOT, THEREFORE, BE SEEN AS THE CHRISTIAN ELEMENT IN REPUBLICAN THOUGHT. ONE SHOULD NOT ASSUME THAT CHRISTIANITY OR ANY OTHER HISTORICAL IDEOLOGY HAS AN ESSENTIAL CORE OF UNCHANGING CHARACTERISTICS.