RT Article
T1 A Theory of the Merging Noospheres: Teilhard and Big History
JF Theology and science
VO 20
IS 1
SP 85
OP 98
A1 Campa, Riccardo
A1 Corbally, Christopher
A1 Rappaport, Margaret Boone
LA English
PB Routledge
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1787762688
AB As the number of detected Earth-like exoplanets keeps increasing, the prospect of contact with extraterrestrial civilizations becomes day after day more plausible. It has been noticed that the encounter between space civilizations implies a fusion of Big Histories. By following Teilhard, the authors argue that the hypothetical contact with alien intelligent life would also result in a merging of the noospheres. The long-term perspective of this process is the awakening of the entire universe. This article provides a history of the idea of noosphere, a reconstruction of Teilhard’s “sociological theory,” and an exploration of the theological consequences of his theory.
K1 Christianity
K1 Exoplanets
K1 Extraterrestrial Life
K1 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
K1 Noosphere
K1 Big History
DO 10.1080/14746700.2021.2012924