UPEI Theology on Tap

The UPEI Department of Religious Studies’ popular Theology on Tap series returns on January 28 at 7 pm at the Salvador Dali Café with a talk titled “More than Optimistic: Hope and Teilhard de Chardin” by Dr. Libby Osgood, a nun with the Congregation of Notre Dame and Associate Professor in Sustainable Design Engineering.

Born in Sarcenat, France, in 1881, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a Jesuit priest and an accomplished paleoanthropologist who researched human beginnings and wrote imaginative, mystical writings on the evolutionary nature of the world and the cosmos. Though his Jesuit leadership did not allow him to publish during his lifetime, his writings were published by his secretary Jeanne Mortier after his death in 1955. Since then, generations of theologians and scientists have been inspired by his desire to find God in the world and how he embraced evolution. He asked, “Who at last will give evolution its God?” At times, he was criticized for being naively optimistic.

Dr. Osgood suggests that Teilhard de Chardin is much more than optimistic—he is hopeful.

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