James Talarico goes full Eckhartian. @jamestalarico
He knows that the statement 'God is love' uses the name of 'God' as a noun. He is trying to say that, even in this sentence, the name of God has only the meaning of the verb 'is love', that is, of 'loving'.
Similarly, the 13/14th-Century German mystic and philosopher Meister Eckhart fiercely critiques the habit of treating the word "God" as a noun that refers to a static entity or an object out there in the world.
In Sermon 52, he instructs his listeners to pray to be "rid of God" as a conceptual noun:
"We pray to God that we may be rid of 'God', and that we may take the truth and enjoy eternity."
For Eckhart, treating God as a noun creates an idol in the mind. Rather, the formula that "God is love" (1 John 4:16) must be read to mean the active verb loving rather than a static description of the name of God.
Eckhart further analyzes "God is love" into four dynamic movements of attraction and flow, arguing that God’s essence cannot be separated from the continuous act of pouring Himself out into creation:
"'God is love.' That is so, inasmuch as all that can love, all that does love, he compels by his love to love him... Love happens, shows up naturally, when our mind is set aside for a while."
In his formal Latin works, such as the Prologues to the Opus Tripartitum, Eckhart argues for the coincidence of Being and Action in God. He notes that in Latin, God identifies Himself in Exodus 3:14 not with a formal title or noun, but with a verb:
Ego sum qui sum ("I am who I am").
Hence, for Eckhart, as for Talarico, God's "being" (esse) is identical to His "acting" (agere).
Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas
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"We must, then, avoid the 'Babel syndrome,' namely the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance."
In leaked audio recordings, Peter Thiel revealed he told JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral issues, including the development of ethical AI.
Calling Leo XIV the “woke American pope,” he also suggested the American pope was a tool of the Antichrist.
Now, Pope Leo XIV is releasing what’s expected to be an historic encyclical addressing AI tomorrow morning. https://t.co/i3RoHOhJQM
Pope Leo XIV writes that the Catholic teaching on Just War Theory “is now outdated”
“Today, more than ever, without prejudice to the right to self-defense in the strictest sense, it is important to reaffirm that the 'just war' theory, which has all too often been used to justify any kind of war, is now outdated.”
Details on @PelicanCatholic