Event Calendar

Upcoming Events

• June 15, 2013

  "The Ecological Spirituality of Teilhard de Chardin"

  Lecture by Mary Evelyn Tucker

  
  St. Raphaela's Chapel
  616 Coopertown Road
  Haverford, PA
  
  2pm
  
  The talk is free and open to the public.
  
  www.straphaelacenter.org

Past Events

• May 11, 2013

  American Teilhard Association Annual Meeting

  Union Theological Seminary
  3041 Broadway at 121st St.
  New York City, NY
  
  12pm - Lunch
  1:30pm - Talk
  
  "The Teilhardian Roots of Journey of the Universe"
  
  Speaker: Mary Evelyn Tucker, American Teilhard Association Vice President and
  Co-director, Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology
  
  Flyer for ATA 2013 Annual Meeting
  
  $25 - Luncheon and Talk
  $10 - Talk only
   

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• November 9-10, 2012

  Anthropological Challenge for Today

  A reading of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in favour of a renewed evangelization 50 years after the Council Vatican II’

  A symposium to be held at Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Rome
  
  organized by
  Associazione Italiana Teilhard de Chardin
  the European Teilhard de Chardin Committee C.E.T.
  Association Française des Amis de Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  and with the support of the Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Foundation
  
  presided by
  Cardinal Paul POUPARD, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Culture
  
  Argument of the Symposium
  
  Programme
  
  Registration Form
  
  Quotes

• June 5-7, 2012

  Summer Symposium: Religion and Environmental Stewardship

  Environmental Education For Clergy, Lay Leaders, and Seminary Faculty
  Bringing Together Science, Theology, and Ethics
  
  Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven CT
  
  Organized by Mary Evelyn Tucker & John Grim, Co-Directors of the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale
  
  Sponsored by:
  Yale Divinity School
  Berkeley Divinity School at Yale
  Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
  Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale
  
  Made possible through support of The H. Boone and Violet M. Porter Chair in Religion and Environmental Stewardship Fund
  
  For the program and more information, visit:
  http://fore.research.yale.edu/yale-summer-symposium-religion-and-environmental-stewardship
   

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  • April 21, 2012

    Annual Meeting of the American Teilhard Association
    Journey of the Universe Film Screening & Discussion

    Union Theological Seminary
    3041 Broadway at 121st St.
    New York, NY
    
    Lunch: 12:00 p.m. in the Refectory
    Film and discussion: 1:30 p.m. in the Stewart Room of Auburn Seminary
    (located on the second floor of Union Seminary)
    
    Screening the film Journey of the Universe
    
    Introduced by the Executive Producers
    Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim
    
    Screening followed by a panel of respondents:
    Julianne Warren, NYU
    Christiana Peppard, Fordham University
    Erin Lothes Biviano, College of St. Elizabeth
    Bede Bidlack, St. Anselm’s College
    
    Journey of the Universe is an epic story of cosmic, Earth, and human evolution inspired by the thought of Teilhard de Chardin. This dramatic film reimagines the universe story and reframes the human connection to the cosmos, as did Teilhard. Journey was written by Brian Thomas Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker, the vice-presidents of the American Teilhard Association. In addition to the film, the Journey project includes a book published by Yale University Press, an educational DVD series of interviews, and an online curriculum. All are available for purchase.
    
    For more information, visit: www.journeyoftheuniverse.org

    To read the panel responses from this meeting, visit:
    http://teilharddechardin.org/index.php/featured-remarks

  • August 25-26, 2011

    Centenary of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's Ordination and First Mass

    Celebrations at Hastings (Sussex, UK)

    For more information, visit:
    http://teilharddechardin.org/index.php/centenary-of-pierre-teilhard-de-chardins-ordination-and-first-mass

     

  • May 14, 2011

    American Teilhard Association Annual Meeting
    Darwin, Teilhard, and the Drama of Life

     

    Speaker	John Haught
    Venue	Union Theological Seminary

    

     

  • November 18-21, 2010

    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin for A New Generation

    Speakers	Dr. John Grim Dr. Mary Evelyn Tucker Dr. Illia Deleo, OSF Brother Jeffrey Gros, FSC Dr. David Grumett Dr. Brian Swimme teilhardforanewgeneration.com
    Venue	Santa Clara University

  • April 17, 2010

    American Teilhard Association Annual Meeting
    The Contributions of Four Teilhardians: Thomas Berry, Ewert Cousins, Fanny de Bary, and Thomas King

    Speakers	Dr. John Grim Dr. Mary Evelyn Tucker Kusumita Pedersen
    Venue	Union Theological Seminary

  • April 4, 2009

    American Teilhard Association Annual Meeting
    Teilhard: The Anthropic Principle and Intelligent Design

    Speaker	Thomas M. King, SJ
    Venue	Union Theological Seminary

  • April 12, 2008

    American Teilhard Association Annual Meeting
    Genesis Farm and Its Journey into Deep Time

    Speaker	Miriam MacGillis, of Genesis Farm Ecological Learning Center
    Venue	Union Theological Seminary

  • February 28 - March 2, 2008

    Renewing Hope Conference

    Events	Evening lecture by Sallie McFague: “A New Climate for Theology: God, the World, and Global Warming” Screening of the new documentary by Marty Ostrow and Terry Kay Rockefeller, Renewal: Inspiring Stories from America’s Religious Environmental Movement
    Venue	Yale Divinity School

  • 2005

    Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of Teilhard's Death in NYC Easter 1955

    In April of 2005 the American Teilhard Association, in collaboration with the French and British Teilhard Associations and other partnering institutions, begins a yearlong commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the death of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) in New York City. One of the leading thinkers of the 20th century, Teilhard integrated his scientific understanding of evolution with his religious understanding of the "divine milieu." His vision of the human as part of a dynamic unfolding universe is expressed in his classic text, The Human Phenomenon. As an accomplished scientist and as a person of deep religious conviction, Teilhard was himself a pioneer in bridging religion and science. He was as well a visionary capable of imagining a viable and vibrant human future.

    In advance of his time and in the midst of great turmoil Teilhard perceived an emerging global consciousness. This was consistent with his understanding of evolution that would unify the human spirit despite the disruptions of war and conflict evident in the first half of the 20th century. Though exiled from his native homeland and refused permission to publish The Human Phenomenon during his lifetime, Teilhard did not lose his humility or his zest for life. Teilhard's life and thought provide a remarkable reflection on endurance that arises from meaningful work, a productive life, and an ever-deepening spiritual vision of reality. In addition to his multi-volume scientific work on paleontology completed during his lifetime, Teilhard's religious writings were eventually published after his death in 1955. With his idea of human consciousness encircling the planet as the noosphere, Teilhard is also credited with anticipating the complex technological connection of human thought now evident in global communications and in the worldwide Internet. Moreover, his thinking regarding the unity of the human has influenced several key founders of the United Nations.