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Teilhard de Chardin on Theosis

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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A very real “pantheism” if you like (in the etymological meaning of the word) but an absolutely legitimate pantheism⁠—for if, in the last resort, the reflective centers of the world are effectively “one with God,” this state is obtained not by identification (God becoming all) but by the differentiating and communicating action of love (God all in everyone).

The Phenomenon of Man 310
Harper & Row, New York, 1959

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