Abstract:
Teilhard de Chardin's lifetime effort to work out the synthesis intellectually falls into three steps of phases:- The first phase or level of his thought is a sort scientific phenomenology especially about evolution. This part of this though does not depend on reevaluation but is an attempt to formulate a general theory of evaluation, an attempt based on scientific data. He finds that evolution has a direction, toward higher degree of material complexity, of organization and toward correspondingly higher degrees of consciousness. Further, he finds that evolution is converging toward some already existing center that is somehow personal. The Universe, then, has a structure and a direction, it is evolving according to a law of "Complexity consciousness" in the direction of greater spiritualization toward a point, a center, that is somehow already in being and that is somehow personal. In a second phrase of his thought, Teilhard uses the data of revelation to construct of Christian apologetic that is at the same time a christology the personal center toward which evolution is converging with incarnating Christ. Teilhard considers his theology of Christ, of a Christ who has attributes that are cosmic. This thought is in striking harmony with the most fundamental texts of St. Paul and St. John and with the theology of the Greek Fathers of the Christ. At a third level, Teilhard outlines a positive morality, a Christian mystic of human conquest. He bases this mystic of human conquest directly on his Christology. Christ is the summit of the evolution of the universe. From that fact, the supernatural value of human effort carried out in Christ is clear. The most direct route to heave is through the building up of the world, a world larger and more than that heaven is to be attained. Because this is true, the most fundamental Christian attitudes, without deviating from tradition, are enriched and made much more dynamic. This thesis criticizes some weak points in Teilhard 's thought such as "Original Sin", "Pleroma" and "The Second Coming of Christ". His viewpoints, however, about the Eucharist, the Church and human work are so creative, valuable and worthy of studying that Christians may put them into practice in their daily lives. For further theses, I should like to suggest an extending of each subject in this thesis. Moreover, we should find out the new ways to interpret the Holy Bible so that we may put them into practice according to the need of to-day society.