Bibles, Study Guides, and Accessories
Deciding which bibles and bible references and bible commentaries to stock is a challenge. I attempt a historical and a critical approach. We begin with the Hebrew and Greek originals. We move through the significant translations chronologically: the Geneva (with its sharp and learned Calvinist notes), the King James (safer for its sponsor), the New Revised Standard, and the excellent harvest of translations in the late 20th Century -- the New International, the English Standard, and the Common English.
Our dictionaries and handbooks tend to be a little conservative, mostly because I am skeptical of the confidence and the imagination of modern liberal scholars. Two thousand years of brilliant minds have thought about and written about scriptures (longer and more in the case of the Hebrew scriptures), and the humble approach with that perspective is useful and wise. The best approach is to begin with the basics and go from there.
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Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence
Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence
Magnifica Humanitas is the first encyclical of Leo XIV's pontificate. In it, the pope provides a groundbreaking analysis of our times -- the "change of era" fueled by technology -- and applies the principles of the Church's social doctrine to the challenges we now face.
Digitalization, artificial intelligence, and robotics are not intrinsic enemies of humankind. Yet they amplify a call to shared discernment and frame a fundamental choice:
Will we construct a new Tower of Babel or rebuild the walls of Jerusalem?
Boldly engaging human knowledge and innovation, Pope Leo proposes a path forward, one that safeguards human dignity, bolsters the common good, builds communion, and ultimately leads to Christ.