Laudato Si and Pope Francis’ “Hero”, Romano Guardini

“So great was the honor and providential care which God bestowed upon man that he brought the entire sensible world into being before and for his [humankind’s] sake.”1 Thus the Greek theologian and monk St. Gregory Palamas (ca. 1296-1359) in the 14th century. The astonishing advances in the areas of technology and the sciences have rendered such serene self-confidence in the meaning of the world and the human person as expressed by Gregory Palamas now extremely rare outside Christianity. Already during the Enlightenment the German poet Friedrich Schiller spoke of “die Entzauberung der