Teilhard de Chardin believed that “we can be saved only by becoming one with the universe.”3 The problem, as he saw it, is the inability to resolve the conflict between the traditional God of revelation and the “new” God of evolution or to see salvation as becoming one with the universe. N. Max Wildiers writes, “The conflict we are suffering today does indeed consist in the conflict between a religion of transcendence and a secularized world, between the ‘God of the Above’ and the ‘God of the Ahead,’ between a ‘religion of heaven’ and a ‘religion of the earth.’”4 Teilhard’s solution to the
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