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The Divine Milieu
Le Milieu divin. Essai de vie intérieure
A treatise on spirituality for Christians living in the world. The first part shows the 'divinisation of activities': all human work, brought to perfection, collaborates in the consummation of the world in Christ, because God waits 'at the tip of my pen, my pick, my paintbrush'. The second deals with the 'divinisation of passivities' —what is undergone, diminishment, death—, and the third describes the 'divine milieu', the presence of Christ that envelops everything. It is his most widely read book as a spiritual guide.
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Authorship note
Written in Tianjin between November 1926 and March 1927 and dedicated 'to those who love the world'; the imprimatur was refused. It circulated in mimeographed copies. Volume IV of the Œuvres de Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Seuil, 1957), a posthumous edition prepared by the publication committee assembled by Jeanne Mortier, the holder of his manuscripts.
Editions and translations
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English
The Divine Milieu
Sussex Academic Press, 2004
Translation: Siôn Cowell
ISBN 9781845192464
The Divine Milieu
Harper Perennial, 2001
Translation: Bernard Wall
ISBN 9780060937256
Français
Le Milieu divin
Éditions du Seuil, 1957
ISBN 9782020005647
Español
El medio divino
Alianza, 2005
ISBN 9788420636023
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
El medio divino
The Conscious LibraryEl medio divino
Trotta, 2008
Translation: Francisco Pérez Gutiérrez
ISBN 9788481649765
Other works by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- The Human Phenomenon (The Phenomenon of Man) · 1955
- The Mass on the World · 1923
- The Heart of Matter · 1976
- The Christic · 1955
- Hymn of the Universe · 1961
- The Appearance of Man · 1956
- The Vision of the Past · 1957
- Man's Place in Nature · 1956
- The Future of Man · 1959
- Human Energy · 1962
- Activation of Energy · 1963
- Science and Christ · 1965
- Christianity and Evolution (How I Believe) · 1969
- Toward the Future · 1973
- Writings in Time of War · 1965
- Cosmic Life · 1916
- The Spiritual Power of Matter · 1919
- My Universe · 1924
- The Spirit of the Earth · 1931
- The Phenomenon of Spirituality · 1937
- Note on Some Possible Historical Representations of Original Sin · 1922
- The Mammals of the French Lower Eocene and their Deposits · 1922
- Early Man in China · 1941
- The Scientific Work · 1971
- The Making of a Mind · 1961
- Letters from a Traveller · 1956
- Letters from Egypt and from Hastings and Paris · 1963
- Intimate Letters · 1972
- The Letters of Teilhard de Chardin and Lucile Swan · 1993
- Journal · 1975
Sources
- Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre. Le Milieu divin. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1957 (Œuvres, t. IV). Texto en Wikisource.
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