Born in Portland, OR, Dr. Eric Manchester completed his BA in philosophy and social science at Northwest Nazarene College (now University) in Idaho. In 1999, he completed a PhD in Philosophy from Marquette University, specializing in Early Modern European philosophy, with additional work in ancient, medieval, and social and political philosophy. An adult convert, in 2001 he was confirmed in the Greek Melkite Catholic Church. He has taught philosophy full time for over 20 years, as a professor at two Catholic colleges, and currently for over 10 years teaching seminarians (not affiliated with Holy Apostles) for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. He has taught additional courses for diaconate programs in the Southern United States, as well as degree completion courses for a local police department. A participant in several Catholic and Evangelical academic societies, he served two years as a Board Member for the pro-life group University Faculty for Life, as well as president of the Wesleyan Philosophical Society (working with scholars within the Methodist and related traditions). His publications include an essay on the philosophical foundations of pro-life principles for the Catholic Encyclopedia of Philosophy, essays on the problem of evil, disability rights, and nature of the human person in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, and John Locke and other early modern thinkers, the political thought of Jacques Maritain, and the intersection of Catholic and Wesleyan thought. He and his wife Paula are active members at St. Raymond of Penafort Catholic church, one of several parishes in Philadelphia serving predominantly Black Catholic communities.