A quote from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said in "The Phenomenon of Man" published in 1959 (A highly controversial book in the Roman Church [and subsequently probably Protestant as well] ),

"Our century is probably more religious than any other. How could it fail to be, with such problems to be solved? The only trouble is that it has not yet found a God it can adore."

Obviously he was progressive. In this book he attempted to weave together like a jacket zipper two unseemingly divergent points: science, viz. evolution, with theology. And this is what got him into trouble. However this little quote from the book seems to be very interesting to me. For in this statement there is a sense of progression. That as the church continues to be the church, living into the realities of the kingdom of God, the world will find the God it can adore. Idealistic, yes; Romantic, yes; Ivory tower, no. Maybe the optimism of grace. Maybe a little bit of Moltmann's Panentheism?

What say you?

Addendum:

Thanks to Curt, who is always graciously helping me say things better, I will try to give a clearer thought.

I find this quote to be fascinating. A world with so many problems to be solved and his thought that this makes our world more religious. It could be the very reason we have the problems that need to be solved is due to the very lack of religion (and I mean it in the historical sense, and in the idea of Wesley--a religion of the heart). Yet de Chardin's thought isn't left in that paradox, but the simple realization that the god the world serves is itself.

I could be reading into de Chardin's thought when I said that it points me to an optimism of grace...and that if the church re-orients herself to God's kingdom and the triune God working in the world to set all things to rights and participates in that, the world begins to see this God it can adore. I see in this quote (for whatever reason) a call to live more intentionally in the ways of Jesus. I think of Hauerwas who talked of the church being the identity the world is so desperately looking for, which it doesn't have.

Am I in left field blowing dandelion seeds?