The Not-Yet Universe

What wants to emerge as our possible Future?

For many years, John F. Haught was Research Professor of Theology at Georgetown University. Inspired by the insights of the Jesuit priest and scientist Teilhard de Chardin, he studied the philosophical and spiritual significance of our Universe story as an evolutionary unfolding.

In his view, our Universe is unfinished. By tuning into the Not-Yet—the possibilities that are still seeking to emerge in our human and cosmic unfolding—we can awaken to a deep, life-affirming hope. This hope is not rooted in something already known, but in the potential for new capacities and new ways of being human together that we can co-create.

In our conversation, we speak about the significance of cosmological evolution for religion, the concept of time and the future of the Universe, the role of Omega in theology, religious identity in the context of scientific discoveries, and what Einstein and Teilhard might have spoken about if they had met.