"Where deceit and disguise have no place": Dilexit nos as a hermeneutical lens in appreciating the heart of Nicaea

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  • Michael Canaris Loyola University Chicago, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7213/cda13n22p101109

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Council of Nicaea, Dilexit nos, Pope Francis, Synodality, Catholic social thought

Resumo

This essay examines the indispensable contributions of Nicaea through the lens of Dilexit nos, pope Francis’s farewell discourse on the role of the heart in a word increasingly coarsened and cruel.  It argues that Nicaea can be meaningful, comprehensible, and evocative to people of the 21st century, if understood through the hermeneutical lens of the encyclical. Not simply an intellectual enterprise, trinitarian theology of Nicaea expresses and demonstrates the heart of faith 1) as a testament to ongoing synodality; 2) in the venerable ancient council’s ability to address in profound and real ways the “depreciation of the deep core of our humanity”, as Francis names the perennial human situation; and 3) in the co-cooperative elements of reparation which Dilexit nos encourages.

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01-07-2025

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Canaris, M. (2025). "Where deceit and disguise have no place": Dilexit nos as a hermeneutical lens in appreciating the heart of Nicaea. Caminhos De Diálogo, 13(22), 101–109. https://doi.org/10.7213/cda13n22p101109