The Divine Milieu (Perennial Classics)
“Teilhard believes, like Bergson, that true religion is dynamic and not static, and that mysticism provides its essential impulse … Readers of theology and devotional writing will identify [inThe Divine Milieu] several sustaining harmonies, such as the action–passion distinction fundamental to Thomist cosmology, according to which human life is seen as both active and passive: sometimes we enjoy autonomy, but at other moments we are shaped by forces beyond our control … Teilhard challenges standard definitions of faith as practice or as direct interior illumination of the soul by God. His concern is, rather to teach his readers how to see. Faith demands awareness of the perceptual world as a subject which ‘enters vitally into the most spiritual zones of our souls’. Illumination of the soul is thus a product of the illumination of the world. True vision becomes, in turn, a gift which enables us to pay attention to the world, thereby enhancing its radiance.”  —TLS“Reflections of the spiritualisation of matter move beyond gravity to remind us of physical exuberance and the joy of growth … There is a beautiful limpidity about the translation … A great contribution to Teilhard Literature.”  —The Scientific and Medical Network Review