Editing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (section)

==Legacy==
[[Brian Swimme]] wrote "Teilhard was one of the first scientists to realize that the human and the universe are inseparable. The only universe we know about is a universe that brought forth the human."<ref>"Introduction" by Brian Swimme, in ''The Human Phenomenon'' by Teilhard de Chardin, trans. Sarah Appleton-Webber, Sussex Academic Press, Brighton and Portland, Oregon, 1999 p. xv.</ref>

[[George Gaylord Simpson]] named the most primitive and ancient genus of true [[primate]], the [[Eocene]] genus ''[[Teilhardina]]''.

On June 25, 1947 Teilhard was honored by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs for "Outstanding services to the intellectual and scientific influence of France" and was promoted to the rank of Officer in the ''Legion of Honor''. In 1950, Teilhard was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Back to France, 1946 - 1951 |url=http://tcreek1.jimdofree.com/6-back-to-france/ |access-date=2023-12-24 |website=Teilhard de Chardin |language=en-US}}</ref> 

=== Influence on arts and culture ===
Teilhard and his work continue to influence the arts and culture. 

* Characters based on Teilhard appear in several novels, including Jean Telemond in [[Morris West]]'s ''[[The Shoes of the Fisherman (novel)|The Shoes of the Fisherman]]''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Moss |first=R.F. |date=Spring 1978 |title=Suffering, sinful Catholics |journal=The Antioch Review |publisher=Antioch Review |volume=36 |issue=2 |pages=170–181 |doi=10.2307/4638026 |jstor=4638026}}</ref> (mentioned by name and quoted by [[Oskar Werner]] playing Fr. Telemond in [[The Shoes of the Fisherman (movie)|the movie version]] of the novel). 
* In [[Dan Simmons]]' 1989–97 ''[[Hyperion Cantos]]'', Teilhard de Chardin has been canonized a [[saint]] in the far future.
* His work inspires the [[anthropologist]] priest character, Paul Duré. When Duré becomes [[Pope]], he takes ''Teilhard I'' as his [[regnal name]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Simmons |first=Dan |url=https://archive.org/details/fallofhyperion00simm_0/page/464 |title=The Fall of Hyperion |date=1 February 1990 |publisher=Doubleday |isbn=978-0-385-26747-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/fallofhyperion00simm_0/page/464 464]}}</ref> 
* Teilhard appears as a minor character in the play ''Fake'' by [[Eric Simonson]], staged by Chicago's [[Steppenwolf Theatre Company]] in 2009, involving a fictional solution to the infamous Piltdown Man hoax.

There is a broad range of references to Teilhard ranging from quotations, as when an auto mechanic cites Teilhard in [[Philip K. Dick]]'s ''[[A Scanner Darkly]]''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dick |first=Philip K. |url=https://archive.org/details/scannerdarkly00dick/page/127 |title=A Scanner Darkly |publisher=Vintage |year=1991 |isbn=978-0-679-73665-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/scannerdarkly00dick/page/127 127]}}</ref> to philosophical underpinning of an entire plot, as Teilhard's work does in [[Julian May]]'s 1987–94 [[Galactic Milieu Series]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=May |first=Julian |title=Jack the Bodiless |date=11 April 1994 |publisher=Random House Value Publishing |isbn=978-0-517-11644-9 |page=287}}</ref>  

* Teilhard also plays a major role in [[Annie Dillard]]'s 1999 ''For the Time Being''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dillard |first=Annie |title=For the Time Being |date=8 February 2000 |publisher=Vintage |isbn=978-0-375-70347-8}}</ref> 
* Teilhard is mentioned by name and the Omega Point briefly explained in [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s and [[Stephen Baxter (author)|Stephen Baxter]]'s ''[[The Light of Other Days]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Clarke |first=Arthur c. |title=The Light of Other Days |publisher=Tom Doherty Associates, LLC |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-8125-7640-5 |page=331}}</ref> 
* The title of the short-story collection ''[[Everything That Rises Must Converge]]'' by [[Flannery O'Connor]] is a reference to Teilhard's work. 
* The American novelist [[Don DeLillo]]'s 2010 novel ''[[Point Omega]]'' borrows its title and some of its ideas from Teilhard de Chardin.<ref>{{Cite book |last=DeLillo |first=Don |title=Point Omega |publisher=Scribner |year=2010}}</ref> 
* [[Robert Wright (journalist)|Robert Wright]], in his book ''[[Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny]]'', compares his own naturalistic thesis that biological and cultural evolution are directional and, possibly, purposeful, with Teilhard's ideas.
* Teilhard's work also inspired philosophical ruminations by Italian laureate architect [[Paolo Soleri]] and Mexican writer Margarita Casasús Altamirano
* Robert Hamblin's book of poems, Dust and Light (Ars Omnia Press, 2012), treats Teilhard's life and work.

In artworks: 

* s French painter [[Alfred Manessier]]'s ''L'Offrande de la terre ou Hommage à Teilhard de Chardin''
* and American sculptor [[Frederick Hart (sculptor)|Frederick Hart]]'s [[acrylic glass|acrylic]] sculpture ''The Divine Milieu: Homage to Teilhard de Chardin''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Divine Milieu by Frederick Hart |url=http://www.jeanstephengalleries.com/hart-divine.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090725154214/http://www.jeanstephengalleries.com/hart-divine.html |archive-date=25 July 2009 |access-date=19 April 2009 |publisher=www.jeanstephengalleries.com}}</ref>  
* A sculpture of the Omega Point by Henry Setter, with a quote from Teilhard de Chardin, can be found at the entrance to the Roesch Library at the [[University of Dayton]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=UDQuickly Past Scribblings |url=https://udayton.edu/magazine/2021/03/art-among-us.php}}</ref> 
* The Spanish painter [[Salvador Dalí]] was fascinated by Teilhard de Chardin and the Omega Point theory. His 1959 painting ''[[The Ecumenical Council (painting)|The Ecumenical Council]]'' is said to represent the "interconnectedness" of the Omega Point.<ref>{{Cite web |title=National Gallery of Victoria Educational Resource |url=http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/dali/salvador/resources/vce_FINAL.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090704200748/http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/dali/salvador/resources/vce_FINAL.pdf |archive-date=4 July 2009}}</ref>
* [[Edmund Rubbra]]'s 1968 Symphony No. 8 is titled ''Hommage à Teilhard de Chardin''.

''The Embracing Universe'', an oratorio for choir and 7 instruments, composed by [[Justin Grounds]] to a libretto by Fred LaHaye saw its first performance in 2019. It is based on the life and thought of Teilhard de Chardin.<ref>{{Cite web |date=4 June 2019 |title=When life finds its way |url=https://www.westcorkpeople.ie/culture/music/music-box/when-life-finds-its-way/ |access-date=16 November 2020 |website=www.westcorkpeople.ie}}</ref>

College campuses: 

* A building at the [[University of Manchester]], 
* residence dormitories at [[Gonzaga University]], 
* residence dormitories at [[Seattle University]].

''The De Chardin Project'', a play celebrating Teilhard's life, ran from 20 November to 14 December 2014 in Toronto, Canada.<ref name="Play and film">{{Cite journal |last=Ventureyra |first=Scott |date=20 January 2015 |title=Challenging the Rehabilitation of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |url=http://www.crisismagazine.com/2015/challenging-rehabilitation-pierre-teilhard-de-chardin |journal=Crisis Magazine |publisher=Sophia Institute Press |access-date=19 June 2015}}</ref> ''The Evolution of Teilhard de Chardin'', a documentary film on Teilhard's life, was scheduled for release in 2015.<ref name="Play and film" />

Founded in 1978, George Addair based much of Omega Vector on Teilhard's work.

The American physicist [[Frank J. Tipler]] has further developed Teilhard's [[Omega Point]] concept in two controversial books, [[The Physics of Immortality (book)|''The Physics of Immortality'']] and the more theologically based Physics of Christianity.<ref>{{Citation |last=Krauss |first=Lawrence |title=More Dangerous Than Nonsense |date=12 May 2007 |url=http://genesis1.asu.edu/Tiplerreview.pdf |journal=New Scientist |volume=194 |issue=2603 |page=53 |df=dmy-all |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111101161611/http://genesis1.asu.edu/Tiplerreview.pdf |doi=10.1016/S0262-4079(07)61199-3 |archive-date=1 November 2011 |url-status=dead}}.</ref> While keeping the central premise of Teilhard's Omega Point (i.e. a universe evolving towards a maximum state of complexity and consciousness) Tipler has supplanted some of the more mystical/ theological elements of the OPT with his own scientific and mathematical observations (as well as some elements borrowed from Freeman [[Dyson's eternal intelligence]] theory).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMkp1kZN5n4|title=white gardenia - interview w/ frank tipler (discussion on richard dawkins stephen hawking more..|date=13 November 2016 |accessdate=26 September 2022|via=www.youtube.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://turingchurch.com/2012/09/26/interview-with-frank-j-tipler-nov-2002/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171003030535/http://turingchurch.com/2012/09/26/interview-with-frank-j-tipler-nov-2002/|url-status=dead|title=Q&A with Frank Tipler|archivedate=3 October 2017|accessdate=26 September 2022}}</ref>

In 1972, the Uruguayan priest [[Juan Luis Segundo]], in his five-volume series ''A Theology for Artisans of a New Humanity,'' wrote that Teilhard "noticed the profound analogies existing between the conceptual elements used by the natural sciences—all of them being based on the hypothesis of a general evolution of the universe."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Segundo |first=Juan Luis |title=Evolution and Guilt |date=1972 |publisher=Orbis Books |isbn=978-0-88344-480-1 |location=Maryknoll, N.Y. |page=13}}</ref>

=== Influence of his cousin Marguerite Teilard Chambon ===
{{Interlanguage link|Marguerite Teillard-Chambon|fr}}, (alias Claude Aragonnès) was a French writer who edited and had published three volumes of correspondence with her cousin, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, "La genèse d'une pensée" ("The Making of a Mind") being the last, after her own death in 1959.<ref name="letters1">{{Cite book |last=de Chardin |first=Teilhard |title=The Making of a Mind: Letters from a Soldier-Priest 1914–1919 |date=1965 |publisher=Collins |location=London}}</ref> She furnished each with an introduction. Marguerite, a year older than Teilhard, was considered among those who knew and understood him best. They had shared a childhood in [[Auvergne]]; she it was who encouraged him to undertake a doctorate in science at the Sorbonne; she eased his entry into the [[Institut Catholique de Paris|Catholic Institute]], through her connection to [[Emmanuel de Margerie]] and she introduced him to the intellectual life of Paris. Throughout the First World War, she corresponded with him, acting as a "midwife" to his thinking, helping his thought to emerge and honing it. In September 1959 she participated in a gathering organised at [[Saint-Babel]], near [[Issoire]], devoted to Teilhard's philosophical contribution. On the way home to [[Chambon-sur-Lac]], she was fatally injured in a [[road traffic accident]]. Her sister, Alice, completed the final preparations for the publication of the final volume of her cousin Teilhard's wartime letters.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Lettres de voyage 1923-1939, de Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |date=1956 |publisher=Bernard Grasset |editor-last=Teillard-Chambon |editor-first=Marguerite |location=Paris |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Nouvelles lettres de voyage 1939-1955, de Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |date=1957 |publisher=Bernard Grasset |editor-last=Teillard-Chambon |editor-first=Marguerite |location=Paris |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Genèse d'une pensée, Lettres 1914-1919, de Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |date=1961 |publisher=Bernard Grasset |editor-last=Teillard-Chambon |editor-first=Marguerite |location=Paris |language=fr}}</ref>

===Influence on the New Age movement===
Teilhard has had a profound influence on the [[New Age]] movements and has been described as "perhaps the man most responsible for the spiritualization of evolution in a global and cosmic context".<ref name="AnkerbergWeldon1996">{{Cite book |last1=Ankerberg |first1=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SghdYBbMds0C&pg=PA661 |title=Encyclopedia of New Age Beliefs |last2=John Weldon |publisher=Harvest House Publishers |year=1996 |isbn=978-1-56507-160-5 |pages=661–}}</ref>

===Other===
[[Fritjof Capra]]'s [[systems theory]] book [[The Turning Point (book)|''The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture'']] positively contrasts Teilhard to Darwinian evolution.