La visión cristiana de la ciencia y la tecnología en Teilhard de Chardin

por Agustín Udías, S.J.

La ciencia y la tecnología ejercen hoy una gran influencia en la vida humana, aportando la ciencia la visión del universo y condicionando la tecnología el progreso de las condiciones de la vida en un mundo globalizado. Teilhard de Chardin reconoce estas funciones de la ciencia y la tecnología e intenta dar una visión cristiana de ellas. Propone que la visión del mundo de la ciencia no sólo es compatible con la fe cristiana, sino que debe ayudarnos a conocer mejor a Dios creador. Desde otro punto de vista, es en este mundo conocido por la ciencia donde Dios se ha encarnado en Cristo, y entonces la investigación científica se convierte en una forma de adoración. Para Teilhard, la visión evolutiva del mundo proporcionada por la ciencia encuentra en Cristo su fin, de modo que la cosmogénesis se convierte en una cristogénesis. La tecnología debe verse también dentro de este proceso dinámico del mundo como un elemento importante de la evolución humana. Esta evolución conducirá a la llegada del ultrahumano y finalmente a la unión del mundo con el Cristo-Omega. Por último, para Teilhard la ciencia y la tecnología tienen de este modo una dimensión cristológica.

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TESTIMONIALS

“En tres breves capítulos, este pequeño libro nos presenta una visión clara y despejada de la visión del mundo de Teilhard de Chardin: la ciencia y la tecnología como parte integrante del proceso evolutivo cristificador del mundo material a medida que avanza hacia el fin último del Misterio de la Encarnación. Breve, limpio y claro, es un regalo para quienes se preguntan qué trama Teilhard”. – Hna. Carla Mae Streeter, OP, Emérita, Instituto de Teología Aquinas, San Luis

​ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Agustín Udías, nacido en Santander (España) en 1935, jesuita, catedrático emérito de Geofísica de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ha ocupado puestos de investigación y docencia en la Universidad de California, Berkeley; Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main y Universidad de Barcelona. Entre sus libros: con 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 religión. Dos visiones del mundo (Sal Terrae, 2010), Jesuit Contribution to Science. Una historia (Springer, 2015) y Los Ejercicios Espirituales con Teilhard de Chardin (Mensajero, 2022). Ha publicado artículos científicos sobre el mecanismo de origen de los terremotos, la sismicidad y la sismotectónica de la región mediterránea, y sobre la relación entre ciencia y religión, y la historia de los científicos jesuitas.

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