Technology In Our Relationship With God I Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P.

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🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Anselm Ramelow examines how technology shapes and reflects our relationship with God, cautioning against both idolizing technology and seeking salvation through it, while affirming its proper role as an instrument serving man's chosen ends.

This lecture was given on June 11th, 2025, at Dominican House of Studies.

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About the Speakers:

Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P., a native of Germany, teaches philosophy at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, California, where he is also currently the chair of the philosophy department. He is also a member of the Core Doctoral Faculty at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and the Academy of Catholic Theology. He obtained his doctorate under Robert Spaemann in Munich on Leibniz and the Spanish Jesuits (Gott, Freiheit, Weltenwahl, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1997) and did theological work on George Lindbeck and the question of a Thomist philosophy and theology of language (Beyond Modernism? - George Lindbeck and the Linguistic Turn in Theology, Neuried: Ars Una 2005). Other works include Thomas Aquinas: De veritate Q. 21-24; Translation and Commentary (Hamburg: Meiner, 2013) and God: Reason and Reality (Basic Philosophical Concepts) (Munich: Philosophia Verlag, 2014), as editor and contributor. Articles appeared in Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie, Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte, Nova et Vetera, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly and Angelicum. Areas of research and teaching include Free Will, the History of Philosophy and Philosophical Aesthetics. He has worked on a philosophical approach to Miracles and other topics of the philosophy of religion, and more recently the philosophy of technology.

Keywords: Divinization of Technology, Ethics, Idolatry, Incarnation, Liturgy, Makers, Materialism, Sacramentality, Spirituality, Virtual Reality

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0:52.4	So one more talk.
1:01.2	And there's talk. Mystic Institute.org. So one more talk, and this talk will be more explicitly about God.
1:04.8	I mean, God has been making an appearance in many ways.
1:14.3	But to make that even more thematic is how technology in general fits into our relationship with God.
1:16.2	And this is not just AI.
1:19.2	This is technology in general.
1:20.8	And of course, what is true for technology in general is also true for AI.
1:26.4	And I want to say that technology, it seems to me at least, is always in some
1:34.0	way related to our relationship with God. And if we think about technology in general this way,
1:43.9	the two possible extreme positions to take,
1:48.1	one is to say that technology is neutral and has nothing to do with God.
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