Christianity without History

Teilhard de Chardin and the last moorings of the Neolithic

Anthony Feneuil

Abstract

Is Christianity essentially linked to history, in the narrow sense of recorded history starting from the Neolithic period? This article shows that Teilhard de Chardin’s thought offers an attempt to answer “no” to this question, by imagining a Christianity without history whose scope could thus exceed the limits of our history. Drawing on two questions, that of prehistory and that of extraterrestrial life, and the problems they raise for Christianity, the article describes how Teilhard engages in this process of reconfiguring key Christian concepts to adapt them to the end of the Neolithic period and the transition from human history to that of the Universe.

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