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Evolution, Technology, and the Divine Ground: Teilhard de Chardin as a Resource for Responding to Magnigica 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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Interview: Approaching The New Year

An interview with ILIA DELIO In reflecting back to the month of December and looking ahead to the new year, Ilia Delio and Brie Stoner enter into conversation about some…

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God Is Born Again And Again

We live in very strange times. Since the recent US presidential election and the wobbly markets impacting our economy, stress, anxiety, and uncertainty seem to mark the general milieu.   There…

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Love And The Dark Energy Of Expansion

Love unites. Strife divides. Unifying love and divisive strife are the two forces that set the cosmos in motion, at least according to the ancient philosopher from Sicily, Empedocles (490-430…

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Advent: Love Coming To Fullness

Advent—from the Latin for “a coming, an approach, or an arrival”—is upon us. This season is more than a sentimental, reminiscent waiting for a new Baby Jesus. The need for…

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Love In An Unfinished Universe: An Advent Reflection

The ancient Jewish mystical worldview is expressed in the Kabala, a system of secret teachings.  Here, the Genesis passage affirming that humans are made in God’s image is taken most…

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Waiting In An Unfinished Universe

The shock waves of our recent presidential election are still being felt around the country and around the world, as if the US just suffered a major heart attack.  The…

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November Interview: Harnessing Love In Changing And Challenging Times

An interview with ILIA DELIO In this month’s interview Brie Stoner asks Ilia Delio for her thoughts on the transformative potential of love as we navigate through challenging times and the…

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Would You Take A “Jesus Pill”?

Expanding on our theme of love in an information culture and the role of technology to enhance our relations, Ron Cole-Turner considers the provocative transhumanist suggestion that artificial enhancement provides…

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On Killing Mice And Loving Robots: Are We Committing A Great Injustice?

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