Timothy Radcliffe

We had students from three classes and faculty from seven disciplines there.

Because the university, there's a Timothy Radcliffe essay about this, the university is the place where we can all talk together about important things if we agree on the rules of the game, which are reasoned.

And that's sort of related to the second thing that I feel like telling people.

I mean, what I've discovered in my vocation as an economist is that we're all called to use our gifts to build up the kingdom of God.

I've quoted this before.

When I was at the Synod, Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe quoted St. John Paul II, who said, "Affective collegiality precedes effective collegiality." And so-

That's right

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about a very controversial academic period in the University of Paris, which is the intellectual center of the world, isn't it, at this time? And so you've got someone like Thomas Aquinas that many people will be familiar with as a saint as well as a theologian.

and he aquinas has this great um honor of being twice the regent master in paris and eckhart's two eckhart was twice yeah so people don't often think about eckhart as a well and this is why we call him meister meister right that's where it comes

from he held the masters of paris and in fact he was sent to paris at a period of time when the order was promoting and defending the thought of Thomas Aquinas.

So he's

like the highest professorship that you could aim at in that time.

Yes, we did.

And I think one of the things that the Eckhart Society has always done in terms of appreciating Meister Eckhart's thought.

is to see him as he was described as both a laser and labor meister, a master of the book, but also a master of life.