If the breadth and width of catholicity was lost after Nicea and collapsed in the modern period, it was also revived in the twentieth century by a lone Jesuit scientist writing from the deserts of China. Teilhard de Chardin was an observer, a paleontologist, and, like the Greeks, stood under the stars in awe at this marvelous universe we call our home. By bringing together evolution and Christianity in a single vision, Teilhard restored catholicity to its original meaning: consciousness of belonging to a whole and making new wholes by thinking and acting toward wholeness. His “deep
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