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David Lane Wellington Author – The Phenomenon of Teilhard: Prophet for a New Age: Book Review

August 18, 2015 by SPCS Leave a Comment

David H Lane, Hataitai, Wellington, New Zealand. SPCS Executive Director.

Author of The Phenomenon of Teilhard: Prophet for a New Age (Macon, Georgia, Mercer University Press, 1996). 189 pages. ISBN 0-86554-498-0 MUP/P131

Book Review by Professor Murray Rae PhD (London) [see ref 1].

The French Jesuit palaeontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who died in 1955, has attained, at a popular level, a quite remarkable status as a prophet delivering a vision of a new spirituality which unites human beings with one another and enables them to recognise their evolutionary destiny as participants in a divine cosmos. Although Teilhard himself claims continuity between his vision and Christian tradition, there is with only a few exceptions, very little enthusiasm for his work amongst academic theologians. His prominence is largely at a popular level, amongst post-Christian New Age sympathisers.

David Lane Wellington NZ Author of The Phenomenon of TeilhardDavid Lane Wellington NZ Author of The Phenomenon of Teilhard Book back cover JPEG

While a great deal has been written about Teilhard and his work, most published critiques have been written by those who are largely in agreement with his philosophical position. In contrast David Lane offers a critique of the inadequacies and errors of Teilhard’s thought, outlining both the nature and extent of its divergence from orthodox Christian faith, and giving insight into the degree to which many New Age philosophies claim inspiration from the works of this populariser of the notion of spiritual evolution.

It is a moot point, as Lane himself makes clear, whether New Age thinkers are deliberately reflecting on and extending Teilhard’s thought or whether instead they are simply calling upon his name in order to give some academic respectability to their own work. Nevertheless, Lane’s book critiques the extent to which Teilhard’s attempt to graft Christianity onto evolutionary theory issues in the kinds of pantheism, monism and gnosticism favoured by New Agers. There can be little doubt, as Anne Roche Muggeridge has observed and Lane abundantly confirms that, despite his retention of the language of Christian dogma, Teilhard’s reliogio-philosophical writings empty that language of its traditional content. His appeal, amongst Christians as well as New Agers, can be attributed as much to the power of his poetic expression as to the mistaken perception, encouraged by Teilhard himself, that his work takes Christianity to the next step of its evolutionary development. [Read more…]

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David Lane, Wellington, NZ – Author: The Phenomenon of Teilhard – Mercer University Press

August 14, 2015 by SPCS Leave a Comment

David Lane, Wellington New Zealand – Author

The Phenomenon of Teilhard: Prophet for a New Age.

By David H. Lane.Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press (1996). 189 pages

In The Phenomenon of Teilhard, David Lane makes a thorough and well-documented case for the thesis that a relatively obscure Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955), exerted a major influence on the evolving modernist theology of the church as well as the New Age movement within Western civilization. Teilhard’s numerous writings of a philosophical or theological nature were considered so harmful by the Roman Catholic Church that they were banned in 1947. This only added to his prestige as Teilhard “seemed to delight in seeing himself as a modern-day Galileo” (p. 13). Throughout his life, Teilhard privately wrote a succession of essays and letters revealing his evolving synthesis of philosophy and theology with the theory of evolution. He wrote in a lyrical, evocative style laced with highly personalized neologisms and ephemeral imagery lulling his followers along a mystical pathway toward what he called the “Omega Point,” where allegedly all reality, consciousness, and mankind in general spirituality unite in perfect godhead. Teilhard believed that: “Science, in all probability, will be progressively more impregnated by mysticism” (p. 83).

David Lane SPCSDavid Lane Wellington NZ Author of The Phenomenon of TeilhardDavid Lane Wellington NZ Author of The Phenomenon of Teilhard Book back cover JPEG

 David Lane, Wellington NZ. Author 

(photo inset copyright D. Lane)  

Teilhard de Chardin’s marked influence as an “evolutionary natural philosopher” was largely due to his degrees in geology and paleontology (p. 11). He wrote at a time in history when society was fascinated by all that claimed to be “scientific.” Teilhard was determined to reconcile the doctrine of evolution with Christianity, and Lane shows how he changed the Christ presented in Scripture into a universal redeemer, the “cosmic emergence of the Spirit” (p. 20). [Read more…]

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“Theological Problems with Theistic Evolution” by David H. Lane

October 15, 2014 by SPCS Leave a Comment

David Lane SPCS
For Enlarged View of VITAL APOLOGETIC ISSUES: Examining Reason and Revelation in Biblical Perspective (Kregel Publications, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, 1995). General Editor: Roy B. Zuck. Click: Zuck cover (PDF); Zuck back (1) (PDF).
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  • Roy Zuck Vital Issues Series (12 vols.) Featuring: A veritable who’s-who of highly esteemed contributing evangelical writers
When it comes to giving a reasoned defense of one’s faith, it helps to have reliable guidance through the critical issues of apologetics such as philosophical questions regarding the Christian faith or biblical reliability. Vital Apologetic Issues: Examining Reason and Revelation in Biblical Perspective draws upon the insights and study of numerous evangelical scholars and writers to answer crucial questions in the field of Christian apologetics.

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David Lane SPCS – “Caged Minds? Creation, Modern Science and Christianity” – by David H. Lane

October 13, 2014 by SPCS Leave a Comment

David Lane SPCS –  Published article: “Caged Minds? Creation, Modern Science and Christianity”.

David Lane SPCS

David Lane (Photo Copyright David H. Lane)

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David Lane SPCS

Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam” on the Sistine Chapel ceiling

Essay “Caged Minds? Creation, Modern Science and Christianity” is based upon opening address by David H. Lane M. Sc. (Hons.), Dip. Tchg. in a multidisciplinary presentation to the students at staff at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.

Published in Creation ex nihilo Technical Journal.   See: http://creation.com/journal-of-creation-121

Complete essay by David H. Lane also available here –  20141013162541106 (PDF)

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The Phenomenon of Teilhard: Prophet for a New Age – by David H. Lane

October 7, 2014 by SPCS Leave a Comment

David Lane SPCSDavid Lane SPCS

David H. Lane M.Sc. (Hons.), Dip. Tchg.  Author (Photo inset above. Copyright David H Lane)

Published by Mercer University Press, Macon, Georgia, USA. (First edition June 1996)

See enlarged front cover and back cover containing book review by Dr Norman Geisler, and ISBN details.

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Description: A Christian biologist David Lane offers a highly critical philosophical and theological analysis of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955), pointing out his influence on the New Age Movement. Available from Amazon Books. http://www.amazon.com/ Contact David Lane SPCS for more information on availability of book Email – spcs.org@gmail.com

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