Ilia Delio is a Franciscan Sister and American theologian specializing in the area of science and religion. Her interests include evolution, physics, and neuroscience and how these fields relate to theology.
CLEAR ALL
Edited by Ilia Delio, thirteen scholars fulfill Teilhard de Chardin's hope that a future generation apply his learnings to the needs of their age. Each chapter sheds new insight on God and humankind's role in co-creation, and the wisdom we need to forge the future.
According to Teilhard de Chardin, evolution ushered in a new understanding of reality based on love-energy. This year's annual lecture explores Teilhard's philosophy of love and the import of conscious love for the direction of human evolution.
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The resurrection happens in the present moment, but it is a present moment bathed in future, a new relationship with God, a new union, a new wholeness—a new catholicity—by which life is wholly unified.
Much can be gained from trailing the spiritual narratives of those who have traveled ahead of us, for the God they have found, we may never have considered.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was intrigued by computer technology and its potential to link humankind on a new level of a global mind. He has been labeled a forerunner of transhumanism; however, his theological vision is not about enhancement but transformation.
A summary of some of Teilhard de Chardin's views on evolution and its relation to humanity from a Christian perspective. Lecture by Ilia Delio from Georgetown University
Thus, the direction of evolution is toward the maximization of goodness, especially if we maintain that the incarnation is the goal of evolution. If Jesus Christ is truly creator (as divine Word) and redeemer (as Word Incarnate) then what is created out of love is ultimately redeemed by love.
Provided here is an excerpt from a presentation by Ilia Delio at the National Presbyterian Church, Washington D.C., on September 30, 2017
This conversation took place as part of a week-long Wisdom School in