精童欲女鈥檚 Theology on Tap series features talk by Dr. Libby Osgood, CND, on January 28
The 精童欲女 Department of Religious Studies鈥� popular Theology on Tap series returns on January 28 with a talk titled 鈥淢ore than Optimistic: Hope and Teilhard de Chardin鈥� by Dr. Libby Osgood, a nun with the Congregation of Notre Dame and Associate Professor in Sustainable Design Engineering.
Dr. Osgood鈥檚 talk will take place at 7:00 pm at the Salvador Dali Caf茅, The Arts Hotel, 155 Kent Street, Charlottetown.
鈥淧eople often use the words 'hope' and 'optimism' interchangeably, but hope requires much more than optimism,鈥� said Dr. Osgood. 鈥淗ope is not naive. It is not sitting back and waiting for something to change, nor is it easy. Based on the writings of Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a paleontologist and Jesuit priest who helped discover an ancestor to homo sapiens, we will explore the need for hope during these challenging times of ecological change.鈥�
Born in Sarcenat, France, in 1881, was a Jesuit priest and an accomplished paleoanthropologist who researched human beginnings and wrote imaginative, mystical writings on the evolutionary nature of the world and the cosmos. Though his Jesuit leadership did not allow him to publish during his lifetime, his writings were published by his secretary Jeanne Mortier after his death in 1955. Since then, generations of theologians and scientists have been inspired by his desire to find God in the world and how he embraced evolution. He asked, 鈥淲ho at last will give evolution its God?鈥� At times, he was criticized for being naively optimistic.
Dr. Osgood suggests that Teilhard de Chardin is much more than optimistic鈥攈e is hopeful.
For more information about the series, contact event coordinator Alexandra Durant at alexandrajdurant@gmail.com, or follow Theology on Tap PEI on Facebook.
