Cosmic Christ
The Cosmic Christ is a concept of Christ preferred by Paul, in which âall things were created through Him and for Him.â[1]
This view of Christ is slightly different from the Redemptive Christ, in that the Cosmic Christ would have become man out of love for man and to perfect the universe, regardless of whether Adam had committed original sin.
This is not to be confused with pantheism.
Teilhard de Chardin's Cosmic Christ
The French Jesuit priest and mystical visionary Pierre Teilhard de Chardin early in the 20th century redefined the idea of the Cosmic Christ. He sought to blend science and religion into a single theory of evolution with the postmodern insight that a scientific study of nature and psycho-spirituality cannot be separated.[2]
On June 30, 1962 the Catholic Church warned against the theories of de Chardin in a monitum against his writings. The warning was again reiterated a few decades later in response to rumors that the monitum had been rescindedâit was not.[3]
The esoteric Cosmic Christ
References
- â Colossians 1:12-14
- â Teilhard de Chardin: Cosmic Christ, Stephen B. Herrmann (springer.com)
Evolution and the Third Nature of Christ: A study of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's Cosmic Christ (catholicworld.info) - â Warning Regarding the Writings of Father Teilhard de Chardin, by Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office (catholicculture.org)