He started very simply: “Unless we are able to view things in terms of how they originate, how they are to return to their end, and how God shines forth in them, we will not be able to understand.”4 For Bonaventure, the perfection of God and God’s creation is quite simply a full circle, and, to be perfect, the circle must and will complete itself. He knew that Alpha and Omega are finally the same, and the linchpin holding it all in unity is the Christ Mystery,
