Weekly Pause & Ponder

To grasp the dynamism of Christianity, one must accept evolution as the explanation for unfolding life. Evolution is not background to the human story; it is the human story.   ...Teilhard recognized that there is a unifying influence in the whole evolutionary process, a centrating factor that continues to hold the entire process together and move it forward toward greater complexity and unity. His faith in Christ led him to posit Christ as the future fullness of the whole evolutionary process. Christ is the centrating principle, the pleroma, and the Omega Point where the individual and collective adventure of humanity finds its end and fulfillment. Through his penetrating view of the universe, he found Christ present within the entire cosmos, from the least particle of matter to the convergent human community. The whole cosmos is incarnational.

From Teilhard to Omega: Co-creating An Unfinished Universe. Edited by Ilia Delio, p.172 and 173.