Breviloquium
Overview
This is Bonaventure’s comprehensive presentation of Christian doctrine, covering the Trinity, creation, the fall of man, the person and mission of Christ, the role of grace, the sacraments, and the Last Judgment.
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This product is part of The Medieval Preaching and Spirituality Collection (34 vols.).
Key Features
- Covers the Seraphic Doctor’s teaching on Christian doctrine
- Offers insight into the Middle Ages
Product Details
- Title: The Life of Saint Francis
- Author: St. Bonaventure
- Translator: José de Vinck
- Publisher: St. Anthony Guild Press
- Publication Date: 1963
- Pages: 326
- Christian Group: Catholic
- Resource Type: Monographs
- Topic: Medieval Church
About the Author
Bonaventure (1221–1274) born John of Fidanza, was an Italian medieval scholastic theologian and philosopher. The seventh Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, he was also a Cardinal Bishop of Albano. He was canonized on 14 April 1482 by Pope Sixtus IV and declared a Doctor of the Church in the year 1588 by Pope Sixtus V. He is known as the “Seraphic Doctor.” Many writings believed in the Middle Ages to be his are now collected under the name Pseudo-Bonaventura. He is honored as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
About the Translator
Baron José M.G.A. de Vinck is a publisher, editor, translator, writer, and owner of Alleluia Press. He has written and translated books on philosophy and theology.
This product is part of The Medieval Preaching and Spirituality Collection (34 vols.).
- Covers the Seraphic Doctor’s teaching on Christian doctrine
- Offers insight into the Middle Ages
Top Highlights
“The purpose of Scriptural doctrine is that we become virtuous10 and attain salvation.” (Page 16)
“Finally, the end or fruit of Holy Scripture is not something restricted, but the fullness of eternal happiness. These Writings which contain the words of everlasting life were written,* not only that we might believe in, but also that we might possess, that everlasting life, in which we shall see, and love, and be fulfilled of all we desire. Then we shall really know that love which surpasses knowledge,* and thus be filled unto all the fullness of God.* This is the fullness to which the divine Scriptures would lead us, as is truly said in the words of the apostle quoted above. Such, then, must be our goal and our intent in studying and in teaching the Scriptures, and also in hearing them.” (Pages 3–4)
“What we must hold is summarized thus: sin is not some positive essence, but a defect, a corruptive tendency; that is, a force which contaminates mode, species, and order† in the created will.2 Hence the corruptive power of sin, while opposed to good as such, yet has no being except in a good, and no origin except from a good; which good is the will’s capacity for free choice. And this capacity is not entirely evil,‡ for it may tend toward good; nor entirely good, for it may fall into evil.” (Page 109)
“an accessible object of knowledge, love, and imitation.†” (Page 144)
“No passage of Scripture, then, should be regarded as valueless, rejected as false, or repudiated as evil, for its all-perfect Author, the Holy Spirit, could inspire nothing untrue,* trivial, or degraded.” (Pages 17–18)
- Title: The Life of Saint Francis
- Author: St. Bonaventure
- Translator: José de Vinck
- Publisher: St. Anthony Guild Press
- Publication Date: 1963
- Pages: 326
- Christian Group: Catholic
- Resource Type: Monographs
- Topic: Medieval Church
Bonaventure (1221–1274) born John of Fidanza, was an Italian medieval scholastic theologian and philosopher. The seventh Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, he was also a Cardinal Bishop of Albano. He was canonized on 14 April 1482 by Pope Sixtus IV and declared a Doctor of the Church in the year 1588 by Pope Sixtus V. He is known as the “Seraphic Doctor.” Many writings believed in the Middle Ages to be his are now collected under the name Pseudo-Bonaventura. He is honored as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
About the Translator
Baron José M.G.A. de Vinck is a publisher, editor, translator, writer, and owner of Alleluia Press. He has written and translated books on philosophy and theology.
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