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Correct me if wrong - however I am almost positive that St. Bonaventure spoke of man’s final “divination”. Of course Bonaventure was using the term to refer to man’s ultimate return to God/the Trinity via admittance to the Beatific vision if he attains it; not the New Age concept often touted that starts to entertain the fuzzy pagan idea that man can become a god himself.

Some modern Franciscans start to cross this line into new age thinking. I visited a Franciscan bookstore at Graymoor in Garrison NY many years ago and it might as well have been a New Age bookstore.

Maybe the place has changed for the better now.

I graduated from St. Bonaventure and have an interest in the saint so this was my association with Father Pope’s topic.

Thanks for posting!