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Published for the first time in history. The Six Propositions of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ

Chardin was asked to sign the following Six Propositions by the Vatican, ‘to prove he was absolutely orthodox on the subject of Adam and Eve and Original Sin’ 1) 1. The first man, Adam, when he acted …More
Chardin was asked to sign the following Six Propositions by the Vatican, ‘to prove he was absolutely orthodox on the subject of Adam and Eve and Original Sin’
1) 1. The first man, Adam, when he acted against God's command in paradise, immediately lost that holiness and justice in which he had been created (Council of Trent, Session 5, Canon 1)
2) 2. The sin of Adam damaged not only him alone but also his descendants; and the holiness and justice received from God, which he lost, he lost not only for himself alone but also for us (Council of Trent, Session 5, Canon 2)
3) 3. This sin of Adam, which is one by origin and passed on to all by propagation and not by imitation, inheres in everyone as something proper to each (Council of Trent, Session 5, Canon 3).
4) 4. Therefore the whole human race takes its origin from one protoparent, Adam (this fourth proposition is nowhere explicitly defined; but is clearly implied by the preceding three) [Note:Teilhard had far greater difficulty subscribing …More
G.K.Chesterton
We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.