The Spirituality of the Future: A Search Apropos of R. C. Zaehner's Study in Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard de ChardinCorrects errors and redresses a balance in Zaehner's 1971 Evolution in Religion: A Study in Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin, in which Dr. Sethna finds some lack of comprehension of Aurobindo and feels that Teilhard comes off better. Aurobindo emerges in this study as the more spiritually advanced of the two. |
Contents
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The Role of the Church Christian Orthodoxy and Teilhards New Religion | 38 |
Sri Aurobindos Ashram Spirituality and Religion Sri Aurobindos General Philosophical Position His Attitude and Teilhards to Science | 70 |
Zaehners Interpretation of Teilhard The Question of Teilhards Pantheism | 79 |
Teilhards Misunderstanding of Vedanta Teilhard and Ecumenism Teilhardian Christianity and the Gitas Spiritual Vision | 166 |
Teilhards Moments of Truth His Commitment to Pantheism | 177 |
Teilhards Attempt to Divide God Is All from God All in All A Clue from Sri Aurobindo | 190 |
Cosmic Consciousness Sri Aurobindos Supermind and His Vision of the Divine Life | 221 |
The Demands of an Evolutionary View Theihards Pleroma | 235 |
Spiritual Teilhard and the Yoga of the Gïtä Teilhards Late Contact with Sri Aurobindos Thought | 252 |
Sri Aurobindo and the Modern World | 262 |
Supplementary Note | 279 |
Auroville | 282 |
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The Formula Union Differentiates and the Nature of Love | 198 |
Some Misconstructions by Zaehner of Indian Spirituality | 208 |
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Activation of Energy Ashram aspect Aurobindonian Auroville become body Brahman Catholic centre Christianity and Evolution Christology Church Collins Cosmic Christ cosmic consciousness cosmogenesis cosmos creation creative divine earth essential eternal everything evil evolutionary evolutionism evolving existence expression Gità God's Greek fathers Harper & Row Henri de Lubac Hinduism human Ibid immanence Incarnation individual infinite Integral Yoga living Logos London Lubac manifestation mankind matter means mind modern mysticism nature nothingness Omega Omega Point organic orthodox Overmind pantheism Paul's philosophical phrase physical Pierre Teilhard pleroma Pondicherry Prat pure Multiple quoted reality realization Religion of Teilhard religious Roman Saint Paul Science and Christ sciousness Scotism sense soul spiritual Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo Ashram Supermind supramental supreme Teilhard de Chardin Teilhardian things thought tion trans transcendent truth unification unified union unity Universal Element Upanishad Vedanta vision whole words writes York Zaehner Zanta
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