It stands below it in the depth of its mystical awareness. It stands above it in its intellectual grasp of the spiritual significance of modern knowledge. The metachristianity which we can discern in their writings is the spiritual fulfillment of a rigorous grand synthesis of current knowledge, and thus can accept no conflict between spirituality and science. Yet it finds ever more profound meanings in its traditions of music, art, and liturgy. The Mission of such metachristianity is justice.
All life has meaning, because all life is the immediate expression of the life of the cosmos.
From that realization arises the fullest understanding of reverence for life. From it arises our imperative to participate fully in the unfolding of knowledge, and to work diligently for the creation of those conditions on the planet which foster justice and the further unfolding of meaning. The Witness of such metachristianity is toward the further spread of ethical spirituality in world consciousness. By using the term meta-christianity, I do not intend to suggest any sense of exclusivity. Rather, the term suggests that the intellectual starting point for both Schweitzer and Teilhard has, through them, taken on implications far beyond conventional interpretations of sectarianism.