Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Thomas M. King
• Thierry Meynard

Titel

God and the Human Future

Ist Teil von

• Teilhard and the Future of Humanity, 2006, p.20

Ort / Verlag

Fordham University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Teilhard was in the midst of his Jesuit and scientific studies when, in late December of 1914, he was drafted into the French army. He was given three weeks of training and sent to the front lines of the First World War, as a stretcher-bearer. During the previous fifteen years he had lived in the quiet of a Jesuit community life. Suddenly he was thrown among strangers with different values and into the chaos of trench warfare. In this troubled situation he came to have an intensified sense of God and the human future. This is most evident in an