I was recently reading the book "The God of Jesus Christ" by Pope Benedict and I came across this passage:

"What then does 'the name of God' mean? Perhaps it is easiest to grasp what this entails if we look at its opposite. The Revelation of John speaks of the adversary of God, the 'beast'. This beast, the power opposed to God, has no name, but a number. The seer tells us: 'Its number is six hundred and sixty-six.' It is a number, and it makes men numbers. We who lived through the world of concentration camps know what that means. The terror of that world is that it obliterates men's faces. It obliterates their history. It makes man a number, an exchangeable cog in one big machine. He is his function - nothing more. Today, we must fear that the concentration camp was only a prelude and that the universal law of the machine may impose the structure of the concentration camp on the world as a whole. For when functions are all that exist, man, too, is nothing more than his function. The machines that he himself has constructed now impose their own law on him: he must be made readable for the computer, and this can be achieved only when he is translated into numbers. Everything else in man becomes irrelevant. Whatever is not a function is - nothing. The beast is a number, and it makes men numbers. But God has a name, and God calls us by our name. He is a Person, and he seeks the person. He has a face, and he seeks our face. He has a heart, and he seeks our heart. For him, we are not some function in a 'world machinery.' On the contrary, it is precisely those who have no function who are his own. A name allows me to be addressed. A name denotes community. This is why Christ is the true Moses, the fulfillment of the revelation of God's name. He does not bring some new word as God's name; he does more than this, since he himself is the face of God. He himself is the name of God. In him, we can address God as 'you', as person, as heart."

The paragraph goes on just a bit more, but that is its essence. When I read it, it felt very resonant with many of the themes shared in The Abbey of Misrule, so I thought it might be worth sharing.