A Christian Vision of Science and Technology in Teilhard de Chardin, S.J.
by Agustín Udías, S.J.
Science and technology today exert a great influence on human life, with science providing the vision of the universe and technology conditioning the progress of life in a globalized world. Teilhard de Chardin recognizes these functions of science and technology and attempts to give a Christian vision of them. He proposes that the worldview of science is not only compatible with the Christian faith, but that it should also help us to know God the Creator better. From another point of view, it is in this world known by science that God has become incarnate in Christ, and so scientific research becomes a form of worship. For Teilhard, the evolutionary vision of the world provided by science finds its end in Christ, so that cosmogenesis becomes a Christogenesis. Technology must also be seen within this dynamic process of the world as an important element of human evolution. This evolution will lead to the arrival of the Ultra-human and to the union of the world with the Christ-Omega. For Teilhard, thus, science and technology have a Christological dimension.
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TESTIMONIALS
“In three brief chapters, this little book presents us with a clear and uncluttered view of Teilhard de Chardin’s vision of the world: science and technology as part and parcel of the Christifying evolutionary process of the material world as it moves toward the final end of the Incarnational Mystery. Short, clean, and clear, it is a gift for those who wonder what Teilhard is up to.” – Sr. Carla Mae Streeter, OP, Emerita, Aquinas Institute of Theology, St. Louis
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Agustín Udías, born in Santander (Spain) in 1935, a Jesuit, Professor Emeritus of Geophysics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, has held research and teaching posts at the University of California, Berkeley; Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main and Universidad de Barcelona. Among his books: with Julio Mezcua Fundamentos de geofísica (Alianza, 1997), Principles of Seismology (Cambridge University Press, 1999, 2018), Historia de la Física. De Arquímedes a Einstein (Síntesis, 2004), Ciencia y religion. Dos visiones del mundo (Sal Terrae, 2010), Jesuit Contribution to Science. A history (Springer, 2015) and Los Ejercicios Espirituales con Teilhard de Chardin (Mensajero, 2022). He has published scientific articles on the topics of earthquake source mechanism, seismicity and seismotectonics of the Mediterranean region, and about the relationship between science and religion, and the history of Jesuit scientists.
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