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Notes on Teilhard de Chardin and Sri Aurobindo: A Focus on Fundamentals by K.D. Sethna

1: “The Modern Spirit, Teilhard De Chardin and Sri Aurobindo”

• Calls Teilhard’s thought pan-en-theism
• Discusses the problems of orthodox Catholicism in Teilhard De Chardin’s work. Sethna argues that what has actually happend with Teilhard is not a revolution in Catholicism, but an arrival at the same truths that Aurobindo grasped.
• Quotes a number of Times Literary Supplement articles about Teilhard: May 25, 1962; May 19, 1966; November 18, 1965 and one on Aurobindo: July 8, 1944
• Fears that, by nominally paying homage to the Augustinian vision of the universe, Teilhard risks compromising and perverting the vision.
• “Of course, an orthodox interpretation is possible of small sectors of the Teilhardian scheme; but, on the whole, he must baffle his fellow-Christians, divided as he himself was between, on the one hand, his spiritual intuitive experience which became intellectually clarified through his science and, on the other, his dogmatically trained theology eager to Roman-Catholicise his new vision” (17).
• Ultimately, Sethna argues that Aurobindo’s take on Indian religion is the only framework that can absorb Teilhard’s conflict between Christian thought and his mystic-science without distorting the intent and import of the vision.