Understanding Teilhard
By Petr Jandacek and Mark David Albertson
Artist Petr Jandacek and writer Mark David Albertson have collaborated on a short, poignant and highly entertaining comic book
Once upon a time in 1881, a curious little French boy named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was born. He didn’t want to be a firefighter or a cowboy like other kids—nope, he wanted to know how the entire universe worked. Imagine someone who loved both dinosaurs and God. That was Pierre.
He grew up and became a Jesuit priest—kind of like a monk who loves science and wears a cool robe. But Pierre wasn’t just interested in prayers and church services. He also studied rocks, fossils, and bones, and even helped discover early human fossils in China. Think Indiana Jones, but with more Jesus and fewer snakes.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the Jesuit Priest, philosopher and Paleontologist, who thought great thoughts, once said, “The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love.”
Here is a comic book filled with the art of Petr Jandacek, with parables by Mark David Albertson, to give you insights, heighten your curiosity, and perhaps give you cause to little think.
