The French Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) was a scientist, mystic, visionary, and one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. With its selected texts on reconciliation, Maalouf's work reaches the very core of Teilhard's mind. Teilhard envisioned a reconciliation of what seem to be contradictory experiences: adoration and intellect, spirit and matter, sacred and secular, religion and science, creation and evolution. In Christ, he recognized the active Agent, the unifying Center, of the creative and redemptive process, and the source of our happiness. The reader will enjoy a journey with a passionate apostle of the unity of all creation and one of the most engaging and influential figures of our time