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Evolution, Technology, and the Divine Ground: Teilhard de Chardin as a Resource for Responding to Magnifica Humanitas

Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas arrives at a moment of genuine civilizational urgency. Its concern for human dignity, its alarm at the displacement of labor, its refusal to treat artificial intelligence as a neutral instrument — all of these are worthy moral interventions. The encyclical asks the right questions. Yet a careful reading alongside of Teilhard de Chardin's ultrahumanism, and the theological tradition that runs from Teilhard through Jung and Tillich, suggests that the encyclical's answers are constrained by a metaphysical framework no longer equal to the evolutionary world it seeks to address. This essay does not dismiss Leo's concerns; it argues that Teilhard provides a more adequate — and ultimately more hopeful — theological grammar for engaging artificial...
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Teilhard For Troubled Times – Part 1

Over the course of the following weeks we will be posting three related blogs by Cynthia Bourgeault on the topic of “Teilhard for Troubled Times.” Here is the first installment. Part 1 – Deep…

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Reading For An Evolutionary Age: An Omega Lectio Divina

The Omega Center engages new ideas on bridging science and religion primarily through the lens of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin but through other thinkers as well. Teilhard spent years in…

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Do We Make A Difference To God?

There are two questions that occupy my thoughts and I hope I can tie them together here.   The first is the question of ethics or, better yet, why we have…

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Perfect Love Casts Out Fear

“God never promised us that we would not suffer.”  Those words struck a painful, but truthful, chord in me when a friend uttered them as we stood talking at the…

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Love In An Untrustful Milieu

One of Teilhard de Chardin’s most appealing works, at least to this author, was The Divine Milieu, a kind of modern reformulation of the classical mystical journey from purgation to…

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Love In An Age Of Distrust

In the 1960s Gordon Moore, the cofounder of Intel, predicted that computing power would double every two years, increasing evolution at an exponential rate.   Technology has radically changed our lives…

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Kenotic Love And True Personhood: A Recorded Conversation

Audio recording with Ilia Delio and Cynthia Bourgeault True love is fecundity, it’s generation, it’s outward moving — and at the same time it’s receptivity — we make space for…

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The Cosmic Christ And A Technology Of Resurrection

“…the Kingdom of God is in your midst.” – Luke 17:21 Technology is all around us. The Internet, in just over 20 years, has radically transformed human life and culture,…

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Love, Hope, And The Cosmic Future

“But the greatest of these is love.” When I was in graduate school in the late 1960s, I came across the following passage from JĂĽrgen Moltmann’s new book Theology of…

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