The Divine Milieu: Teilhard de Chardin

Podcast-style audio & video course - 6 Topics
Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
Director, Iona Spirituality Institute
(5 customer reviews)
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The Divine Milieu has illuminated the way for countless spiritual seekers. Now, this six-part retreat invites you, too, to reflect on Teilhard de Chardin’s powerful vision of the universe.

A Jesuit priest and geologist, Teilhard articulates a vision at once cosmic and personal. His posthumously published masterpiece, The Divine Milieu (1957), maps the horizons of transcendence on the one hand and intimacy on the other. The more time you spend with its pages, the more radiantly you will see the contours of our true nature and our home in God. This is a perfect opportunity for you to plumb the depths of your soul, heighten your Christic life, and serve the world with greater enlightenment.

You couldn’t ask for a more gifted instructor than Sr. Kathleen Deignan. Aside from being an expert on contemporary mystics like Teilhard and Thomas Merton, Sr. Deignan is also an accomplished musician. She braids her beautiful music into spiritual explorations of The Divine Milieu to create a retreat experience you’ll never forget.

This series will transform your spiritual i

The Divine Milieu has illuminated the way for countless spiritual seekers. Now, this six-part retreat invites you, too, to reflect on Teilhard de Chardin’s powerful vision of the universe.

A Jesuit priest and geologist, Teilhard articulates a vision at once cosmic and personal. His posthumously published masterpiece, The Divine Milieu (1957), maps the horizons of transcendence on the one hand and intimacy on the other. The more time you spend with its pages, the more radiantly you will see the contours of our true nature and our home in God. This is a perfect opportunity for you to plumb the depths of your soul, heighten your Christic life, and serve the world with greater enlightenment.

You couldn’t ask for a more gifted instructor than Sr. Kathleen Deignan. Aside from being an expert on contemporary mystics like Teilhard and Thomas Merton, Sr. Deignan is also an accomplished musician. She braids her beautiful music into spiritual explorations of The Divine Milieu to create a retreat experience you’ll never forget.

This series will transform your spiritual imagination and your cosmic consciousness. As you make your way through each conference, you will explore the profound paradoxes of Teilhard’s spirituality. Throughout, Sr. Deignan steers you through the landscape of the Sacred—festooning its mystical terrain with her original compositions and distinctive flair.

Teilhard’s cosmic spirituality and vitalist theory of evolution belong to every generation. Experience his legacy as never before in this innovative retreat.

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Sr. Kathleen Deignan, C.N.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Religious and Environmental Studies at Iona College, where she founded and directs the Iona Spirituality Institute and co-convenes the Thomas Berry Forum for Ecological Dialogue. Sr. Deignan is also a GreenFaith Fellow engaged in religious environmental leadership and education. The President Emerita of the International Thomas Merton Society, she now animates the Merton Contemplative at Iona and sits on the board of the American Teilhard Association. She holds a master’s degree in the History of Christian Spirituality and adoctorate in Historical Theology from Fordham University. 
Sr. Deignan is the author of Christ Spirit: The Eschatology of Shaker Christianity (Scarecrow Press, 1992), Thomas Merton: When the Trees Say Nothing: Writings on Nature (Sorin, 2002), and Thomas Merton: A Book of Hours (Sorin, 2007), as well as numerous articles on classical and contemporary spirituality, which have appeared in The Thomas Merton Annual, The Thomas Merton Seasonal, The Way, and many other journals.
 A sister of the Congregation of Notre Dame, Sr. Deignan is the recipient of numerous awards, including the McCabe Award for Social Justice from Iona College, the Spirit Award from GreenFaith, and the Sapientia et Doctrina Award from Fordham. A leader of retreats and presenter of concerts, she is composer-in-residence for Schola Ministries, which has produced a dozen albums of her extensive repertoire.

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5 reviews for The Divine Milieu: Teilhard de Chardin

  1. Susan

    It conveys a spirituality that is timely in our fastly changing world and view of creation.

    The Divine Milieu is brought to our time and place. It conveys a spirituality that is timely in our fastly changing world and view of creation.

  2. Maureen

    Sr. Kathleen Deignan is a fine presenter

    Sr. Kathleen Deignan is a fine presenter, incorporates personal information with objective content, and uses music effectively in her presentation.

  3. Susan

    Effective and beautiful

    The song refrains composed by the retreat director are effective and beautiful.

  4. NDiane P. Fruitvale, BC Canada

    Spring Survey: April 2017

    The delivery voice, the music, and the emphasis. It was intimate and yet expansive. I was swept into the Divine Milieu like never before.

  5. D.H., IL

    Summer Survey: July 2017

    While there are many courses offered by NYKM, I gravitate toward the mystics, feeling this is the most authentic, fixed, permanent part of the Church. There are more titles I plan to purchase : ) Thank you for such a range of program offerings. I always look forward to and study the catalogs!

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