The Divine Milieu

The essential companion to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenom of Man, The Divine Milieu expands on the spiritual message so basic to his thought. It describes the evolutionary process mainly from a material point of view, though the point is made that, with the emergence and development of man, the individual could use his free will to cooperate with God and go beyond what seems a purely material process. The Divine Milieu explains how this cooperation takes place and shows that man's spiritual life can become a participant in the destiny of the universe.