In the year 1225, a year before his death, Francis of Assisi composed the Canticle of Brother Sun... more In the year 1225, a year before his death, Francis of Assisi composed the Canticle of Brother Sun, a rich lyrical poem in which God is praised through the works of creation. Although the text is relatively simple in composition, the Canticle encompasses a profound inner meaning that transcends creation prima facie, the elements of which comprise the body of praises.1 The Canticle can be identified as a hymn of light composed by one who experienced the true light of God revealed in Christ. Yet, paradoxically, at the time of its composition, Francis was virtually blind, in constant physical pain and approaching the end of his life. The praises of God expressed in the Canticle, therefore, point to a deeper meaning of Francis's life in relationship to God. Since he had already received the stigmata by the time he composed the text, his unique relationship to God can be identified in his conformity to the Crucified. The thesis of this paper is that the Canticle of Brother Sun is a testimony of Francis's mystical union with Christ. It is a cosmic Christie hymn in which Francis, united to Christ, sings of his union with all creation in Christ. The eschatological tone of the hymn resonates the melody of the new paradise in which Christ stands as center and eternal mediator.
Artificial Intelligence (AI ) has entered our world and changed the matrices of human relationshi... more Artificial Intelligence (AI ) has entered our world and changed the matrices of human relationships. A thousand years ago, the philosophical challenge was to think nature-and ourselves in the presence of nature. Today, according to Sr. Delio, the great and the first philosophical challenge is to think technology and to think ourselves in the presence of technology. Nature creates new connections and computer technology may be described within the wider framework of relationships. In this respect, a new type of complex life system is arising whereby the human person is not an autonomous subject over and against the machine and the machine is not an autonomous entity over and against the human person. Rather person and machine are interrelated and form a larger system of creative life. Using Teilhard de Chardin’s vision of love at the heart of the cosmos, Sr. Delio will show why AI is consonant with a metaphysics of love and Christogenesis
There is an age-old saying that captures the sacredness of place where lies our deepest sense of ... more There is an age-old saying that captures the sacredness of place where lies our deepest sense of peace and comfort, of all that we are and strive to be, where memories are drawn and dreams unfold. “Home is where the heart is,” not only speaks to every weary traveler who arrives safely home after a long trip but to anyone who searches for that place in the world where one can truly be oneself. The Franciscan theologian, Bonaventure, captured this idea in his own way when he wrote: “You truly exist where you love not merely where you live.” In other words, you truly are yourself and the fullness of all you can be where you love, and where you love is truly where you live. If loving and living are so united, we may question whether or not we truly love where we live. For we live in creation, in the natural world of created things. Scientists today tell us that creation is our “home,” that we are biologically related to other living forms of life and that, on a broader level, we are joi...
Have downtimes? Read the humility of god writer by Why? A best seller book on the planet with gre... more Have downtimes? Read the humility of god writer by Why? A best seller book on the planet with great worth as well as content is integrated with appealing words. Where? Merely here, in this site you can check out online. Want download? Naturally available, download them additionally below. Offered data are as word, ppt, txt, kindle, pdf, rar, as well as zip. Searching for most sold book or reading resource worldwide? We supply them done in format type as word, txt, kindle, pdf, zip, rar as well as ppt. among them is this professional the humility of god that has been created by Still confused ways to get it? Well, merely check out online or download by signing up in our website here. Click them. This is really going to save you time and your money in something should think about. If you're seeking then search around for online. Without a doubt there are several these available and a lot of them have the freedom. However no doubt you receive what you spend on. An alternate way to ...
The developing discipline of neurotheology looks to the structures of the human brain to understa... more The developing discipline of neurotheology looks to the structures of the human brain to understand our religious experience. It sheds new light on the integral relationship between both mind and body, and spirit and matter, and contributes to an appreciation of the human person as one truly made for participation in Mystery.
Revolutionary scientific discoveries in this century, particularly in the area of cosmology, have... more Revolutionary scientific discoveries in this century, particularly in the area of cosmology, have made the question of divine action in the created world a controversial one. While conservative theologians hold on to a medieval world view in which God acts in and guides a closed universe that comfortably fits “in the palm of God’s hand,” others have abandoned the medieval view to confront the challenges posed by the new cosmology. A universe in which chance, chaos, and complex interactions comprise the physical fabric compels theologians to interpret divine action in radically new ways. The myriad of books and articles on this subject within the last ten years is an indication that the new cosmology is calling for a new theology. While the efforts of scholars to discern the role of God in creation are commendable, they are, at the same time, circumscribed by the notion of God as unified being. The Christian version of Aristotle’s unmoved mover, thanks to the genius of Thomas Aquinas...
Higher education is undergoing major revisions today due to a number of factors including changin... more Higher education is undergoing major revisions today due to a number of factors including changing demographics, online education, financial constraints, and a selective job market. How to educate for today's world has become the crucial question. The Catholic college or university finds itself in the same competitive sphere of higher education as it secular counterparts: jobs, attractive majors, tuition costs, and online versus onsite teaching are frequent topics of faculty and administrative meetings. Survival of the four-year undergraduate college or university, religious or secular, has become a competition of the fittest-or at least the richest. The fact that Catholic schools of higher learning find themselves on the same racetrack as their secular peers raises the question: Does the Catholic college or university have anything distinctive to offer to today's world? Does Catholic education make a difference? This paper argues that Catholicism does have a distinct approach to learning and that the Catholic intellectual tradition can make a valuable contribution to higher education today. To do so, however, the Catholic intellectual tradition must find its own voice and epistemology. The Jesuit charism, with its deep incarnational commitment, coupled with the Jesuit mission of education, has yielded some outstanding thinkers in this regard. Here I focus on several Jesuit thinkers of the twentieth century who have contributed to a deepened understanding of the Catholic intellectual tradition in the modern age. Their names are familiar to many
THE HOURS OF THE UNIVERSE: Reflections on God, Science, and the Human Journey by Ilia Delio. Mary... more THE HOURS OF THE UNIVERSE: Reflections on God, Science, and the Human Journey by Ilia Delio. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2021. 242 pages, index. Paperback; $25.00. ISBN: 9781626984035. *In this exquisitely constructed book, Delio reveals the current state of her reflections on the central concern of her life and work: the relationship of God, humanity, and the universe in the context of the evolutionary process. Her unscripted career leading to this publication, narrated in her memoir Birth of a Dancing Star: My Journey from Cradle Catholic to Cyborg Christian, has exhibited the same sort of development and diversity that she finds woven into the fabric of the universe. A Franciscan sister who began her religious life as a cloistered member of the Carmelite order, Delio earned doctorates in pharmacology and historical theology and has taught at Trinity College, Washington Theological Union, Georgetown University, and Villanova University. Today, she is an award-winning author, best ...
In the year 1225, a year before his death, Francis of Assisi composed the Canticle of Brother Sun... more In the year 1225, a year before his death, Francis of Assisi composed the Canticle of Brother Sun, a rich lyrical poem in which God is praised through the works of creation. Although the text is relatively simple in composition, the Canticle encompasses a profound inner meaning that transcends creation prima facie, the elements of which comprise the body of praises.1 The Canticle can be identified as a hymn of light composed by one who experienced the true light of God revealed in Christ. Yet, paradoxically, at the time of its composition, Francis was virtually blind, in constant physical pain and approaching the end of his life. The praises of God expressed in the Canticle, therefore, point to a deeper meaning of Francis's life in relationship to God. Since he had already received the stigmata by the time he composed the text, his unique relationship to God can be identified in his conformity to the Crucified. The thesis of this paper is that the Canticle of Brother Sun is a testimony of Francis's mystical union with Christ. It is a cosmic Christie hymn in which Francis, united to Christ, sings of his union with all creation in Christ. The eschatological tone of the hymn resonates the melody of the new paradise in which Christ stands as center and eternal mediator.
Artificial Intelligence (AI ) has entered our world and changed the matrices of human relationshi... more Artificial Intelligence (AI ) has entered our world and changed the matrices of human relationships. A thousand years ago, the philosophical challenge was to think nature-and ourselves in the presence of nature. Today, according to Sr. Delio, the great and the first philosophical challenge is to think technology and to think ourselves in the presence of technology. Nature creates new connections and computer technology may be described within the wider framework of relationships. In this respect, a new type of complex life system is arising whereby the human person is not an autonomous subject over and against the machine and the machine is not an autonomous entity over and against the human person. Rather person and machine are interrelated and form a larger system of creative life. Using Teilhard de Chardin’s vision of love at the heart of the cosmos, Sr. Delio will show why AI is consonant with a metaphysics of love and Christogenesis
There is an age-old saying that captures the sacredness of place where lies our deepest sense of ... more There is an age-old saying that captures the sacredness of place where lies our deepest sense of peace and comfort, of all that we are and strive to be, where memories are drawn and dreams unfold. “Home is where the heart is,” not only speaks to every weary traveler who arrives safely home after a long trip but to anyone who searches for that place in the world where one can truly be oneself. The Franciscan theologian, Bonaventure, captured this idea in his own way when he wrote: “You truly exist where you love not merely where you live.” In other words, you truly are yourself and the fullness of all you can be where you love, and where you love is truly where you live. If loving and living are so united, we may question whether or not we truly love where we live. For we live in creation, in the natural world of created things. Scientists today tell us that creation is our “home,” that we are biologically related to other living forms of life and that, on a broader level, we are joi...
Have downtimes? Read the humility of god writer by Why? A best seller book on the planet with gre... more Have downtimes? Read the humility of god writer by Why? A best seller book on the planet with great worth as well as content is integrated with appealing words. Where? Merely here, in this site you can check out online. Want download? Naturally available, download them additionally below. Offered data are as word, ppt, txt, kindle, pdf, rar, as well as zip. Searching for most sold book or reading resource worldwide? We supply them done in format type as word, txt, kindle, pdf, zip, rar as well as ppt. among them is this professional the humility of god that has been created by Still confused ways to get it? Well, merely check out online or download by signing up in our website here. Click them. This is really going to save you time and your money in something should think about. If you're seeking then search around for online. Without a doubt there are several these available and a lot of them have the freedom. However no doubt you receive what you spend on. An alternate way to ...
The developing discipline of neurotheology looks to the structures of the human brain to understa... more The developing discipline of neurotheology looks to the structures of the human brain to understand our religious experience. It sheds new light on the integral relationship between both mind and body, and spirit and matter, and contributes to an appreciation of the human person as one truly made for participation in Mystery.
Revolutionary scientific discoveries in this century, particularly in the area of cosmology, have... more Revolutionary scientific discoveries in this century, particularly in the area of cosmology, have made the question of divine action in the created world a controversial one. While conservative theologians hold on to a medieval world view in which God acts in and guides a closed universe that comfortably fits “in the palm of God’s hand,” others have abandoned the medieval view to confront the challenges posed by the new cosmology. A universe in which chance, chaos, and complex interactions comprise the physical fabric compels theologians to interpret divine action in radically new ways. The myriad of books and articles on this subject within the last ten years is an indication that the new cosmology is calling for a new theology. While the efforts of scholars to discern the role of God in creation are commendable, they are, at the same time, circumscribed by the notion of God as unified being. The Christian version of Aristotle’s unmoved mover, thanks to the genius of Thomas Aquinas...
Higher education is undergoing major revisions today due to a number of factors including changin... more Higher education is undergoing major revisions today due to a number of factors including changing demographics, online education, financial constraints, and a selective job market. How to educate for today's world has become the crucial question. The Catholic college or university finds itself in the same competitive sphere of higher education as it secular counterparts: jobs, attractive majors, tuition costs, and online versus onsite teaching are frequent topics of faculty and administrative meetings. Survival of the four-year undergraduate college or university, religious or secular, has become a competition of the fittest-or at least the richest. The fact that Catholic schools of higher learning find themselves on the same racetrack as their secular peers raises the question: Does the Catholic college or university have anything distinctive to offer to today's world? Does Catholic education make a difference? This paper argues that Catholicism does have a distinct approach to learning and that the Catholic intellectual tradition can make a valuable contribution to higher education today. To do so, however, the Catholic intellectual tradition must find its own voice and epistemology. The Jesuit charism, with its deep incarnational commitment, coupled with the Jesuit mission of education, has yielded some outstanding thinkers in this regard. Here I focus on several Jesuit thinkers of the twentieth century who have contributed to a deepened understanding of the Catholic intellectual tradition in the modern age. Their names are familiar to many
THE HOURS OF THE UNIVERSE: Reflections on God, Science, and the Human Journey by Ilia Delio. Mary... more THE HOURS OF THE UNIVERSE: Reflections on God, Science, and the Human Journey by Ilia Delio. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2021. 242 pages, index. Paperback; $25.00. ISBN: 9781626984035. *In this exquisitely constructed book, Delio reveals the current state of her reflections on the central concern of her life and work: the relationship of God, humanity, and the universe in the context of the evolutionary process. Her unscripted career leading to this publication, narrated in her memoir Birth of a Dancing Star: My Journey from Cradle Catholic to Cyborg Christian, has exhibited the same sort of development and diversity that she finds woven into the fabric of the universe. A Franciscan sister who began her religious life as a cloistered member of the Carmelite order, Delio earned doctorates in pharmacology and historical theology and has taught at Trinity College, Washington Theological Union, Georgetown University, and Villanova University. Today, she is an award-winning author, best ...
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