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September 2021
The Night School for Deeper Learning (Series IX, Session I) with the Author of the Letter to the Ephesians
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…
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The Night School for Deeper Learning (Series IX, Session II) with St. Bonaventure
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…
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The Night School for Deeper Learning (Series IX, Session III) with Meister Eckhart
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…
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The Night School for Deeper Learning (Series IX, Session IV) with Pope Francis I
A description of our Guest is given at the end of the book that we will read - Let us Dream: The Path to a Better Future (2020). It reads: “Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 17, 1936, the son of Italian immigrants. He was ordained a priest in the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1969, named Provincial in 1973, and rector of the Colegio Máximo in Buenos Aires in 1980. He was consecrated bishop…
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