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Our “special guest” for the first class of Series 9 is the author of the Letter to the Ephesians in the New Testament. It was written by an unknown author (though one profoundly influenced by St. Paul) sometime between 80-100 CE. It is attributed to St. Paul (a common practice in the ancient world), suggesting that he wrote it while in prison in Rome - 61-63 CE. The letter comprises only six chapters, but they express a vision of the…

One of the greatest of the medieval theologians, Saint Bonaventure was the Minister General of the Franciscan Order during a time when the so recently founded Order (St. Francis of Assisi died in October 1226) was tearing itself apart. He was the steady, brilliant, and discerning leader who organized and healed them. At the University of Paris (1235-1257 CE), he studied, rising quickly to prominence as a thinker of wide and deep theological understanding, eventually becoming in 1254 the head…

Johannes Eckhart entered the Dominican Order at the age of 15, when the influence of the brilliant and saintly St. Thomas Aquinas, OP (died in March 1274 CE) was comprehensively felt throughout the Order and in Europe. Eventually he became a Master of Theology at the University of Paris. But his main interest was to create a Christian philosophy that could best describe the soul’s ascent to God, into Unity with the divine Source of all things. One great scholar…