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Book SynopsisAlthough Bonaventurian scholarship has seen a great expansion in the past forty years, there remains no English volume that provides a general yet detailed study of Bonaventure for scholars. The Companion to Bonaventure provides an invaluable guide to understanding him. Together the essays deliver a critical overview of the current research, the major themes in Bonaventure’s life and writings, and how they are being reinterpreted at the start of the twenty-first century. As a great 13th century scholastic luminary, Bonaventure exists as a vital contributor to the early Franciscan movement that swept across the theological and spiritual landscape of the High Middle Ages. The paradoxical simplicity and complexity of Bonaventure’s synthesis has made, and will continue to provide, a profound contributions to Franciscan and Christian reflection. This Companion will help in understanding why this is the case. Contributors include: Joshua Benson, Jacques Bougerol, Ilia Delio, Christopher Cullen, Jared Goff, Jay M. Hammond, Zachary Hayes, J. A. Wayne Hellmann, Kevin L. Hughes, Timothy J. Johnson, David Keck, Gregory LaNave, Pietro Maranesi, Dominic V. Monti, and Marianne Schlosser.
Trade Review“This is an important resource for anyone interested in the thought, life and work of Bonaventure. It will be useful for scholars and students of theology at all levels. Every theological library should have it.” Donald Schweitzer, St. Andrew’s College. In: Religious Studies and Theology, Vol. 34, No. 1 (2015) pp. 140-141. “The Companion … explores in a balanced way the multidimensionality of Bonaventure’s thought, it introduces the reader to the person and works of Bonaventure in light of the best and most current research, and it invites scholars to embark upon further study of Bonaventure’s thought.” Severin V. Kitanov, Salem State University. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 46, No. 1 (2015), pp. 154-155. “The volume is a welcome contribution to medieval studies and will be of great interest to both students and scholars of medieval theology.” John T. Slotemaker, Fairfield University. In: Religious Studies Review, Vol. 41, No. 2 (June 2015), p. 86.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction JAY HAMMOND & J.A. WAYNE HELLMANN FOUNDATIONS The Life and Works of Bonaventure MARIANNE SCHLOSSER The Opera Omnia of Saint Bonaventure: History and Present Situation PIETRO MARANESI Bonaventure’s Theological Method GREGORY LANAVE Bonaventure’s Philosophical Method CHRISTOPHER CULLEN THEOLOGY Bonaventure as Exegete JACQUES BOUGEROL Bonaventure’s Trinitarian Theology ZACHARY HAYES The Christology of the Breviloquium JOSHUA BENSON Bonaventure’s Angelology DAVID KECK Bonaventure: On the Institution of Sacraments J.A. WAYNE HELLMANN SPIRITUALITY AND PRACTICE Theology, Spirituality and Christ the Center: Bonaventure’s Synthesis ILIA DELIO Bonaventure as Preacher TIMOTHY J. JOHNSON The Legenda Minor TIMOTHY J. JOHNSON Bonaventure’s Legenda Major JAY M. HAMMOND Bonaventure’s Defense of Mendicancy KEVIN L. HUGHES Bonaventure as Minister General DOMINIC V. MONTI Index
