The heady amalgam of Science and Christianity posited by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin-which struck the Catholic world like a whirlwind around the time of the Second Vatican Council and continues, however stealthily, to the present day-has rendered Catholics vulnerable to various heretical and heterodox tenets. This ideology clad in scientific garb is what Wolfgang Smith takes to task in the detailed and rigorous argument of this book. In addition to his definitive refutation of Teilhard''s "science-fiction theology," the author reintroduces vital metaphysical and theological truths of the Greek and Latin Fathers to a contemporary audience.