SU S1 2024 - Creation Spirituality: Teilhard de Chardin

Creation Spirituality: Teilhard de Chardin

THL575.01/SPT542.01/SPT442.31

Spring Hill College (June 3-7) 9am-11am

Lucey Admin Complex (Burke Library Room #030)

George Gilmore, Ph.D.

Easy Listening - No Credit

Course Description: The traditional spirituality of the Society of Jesus, finding God (Christ) in all things, is wonderfully presented in the writings of Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. His own personal, spiritual and intellectual development emerged hand in hand with his growth as a first-class scientist. His major books and letters give us a wonderful array of insights into creation and the universe as it emerged in the presence of Christ, as the universe rises towards complete unity with God, I Corinthians: 15.28, “when God shall be all in all.” Both in his narrowly spiritual writings, such as The Divine Milieu, and most specifically in the symphonic climax of The Phenomenon of Man, he centers all things in Christ, integrating the ascent of humankind physically and spiritually.

George Gilmore came to Spring Hill College in January of 1974, and this year completes his fiftieth year! Dr. Gilmore has taught Christology, Teilhard de Chardin, Human Sexuality and Marriage, Zen, and World Religions regularly to the undergraduates. He has taught a number of those courses to graduate students also, including courses for the Summer Institute of Christian Spirituality on Teilhard de Chardin, Ignatius of Loyola, and Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. He lives in Fairhope, AL and is a member, teaches their history course, and is on the executive council of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation which founded Fairhope in 1894. He has been in the leadership of the Mobile Christian Jewish Dialogue since 2005. He is president of a homeowners association for a community on Fort Morgan.