The Story He Told

"Interiorly, I am caught between two opposing forces. One, the increasingly 'brutal' thought that nothing in life really matters except Our Lord. The other, the ever-sharpening sense, perhaps, of how heavy-handed, narrow-minded, and obsolete is the modern Church. Sometimes, I find myself thinking, 'cupio dissolvi, I want to be dissolved,' in order to escape this inner tearing." ...
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"Interiorly, I am caught between two opposing forces. One, the increasingly 'brutal' thought that nothing in life really matters except Our Lord. The other, the ever-sharpening sense, perhaps, of how heavy-handed, narrow-minded, and obsolete is the modern Church. Sometimes, I find myself thinking, 'cupio dissolvi, I want to be dissolved,' in order to escape this inner tearing." The words come from the priest and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and this book, THE STORY HE TOLD, lifts a curtain on what lay behind them--the clash of two narratives, one from science and one from religion, one new and one old. They differed over a single question: were human beings, was the very cosmos, evolving? Along with THE EARTH HE LOVED and THE WOMEN HE KNEW, THE STORY HE TOLD complements TEILHARD: VISIONARY SCIENTIST, a documentary film that premiered in 2024. Beautifully illustrated with stills captured from the film, the books follow separate paths through Teilhard's life, each from beginning to end. Together, they form A TEILHARD TRILOGY.