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Newman Nights Lecture: The Universe as Epiphany: Teilhard de Chardin’s Discovery of the Heart of God in All Creation

Published: April 30, 2015, 8 p.m.

April 30, 2015 - Sixty years after the death of the great Jesuit paleontologist and theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, ProfessorUrsula Kingpresents an examination of his mysticism based on science and the spiritual richness of evolution and modern cosmology. Ursula King, STL (Paris), MA (Delhi), PhD (London), FRSA, is Professor Emerita of Theology and Religious Studies and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol. She has published numerous books and articles, especially on gender issues in religions; method and theory; modern Hinduism; interfaith dialogue; spirituality; and the thought of Teilhard de Chardin.