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Bonaventura, Bonaventure

Saint, called the Seraphic Doctor. 1221--74, Italian Franciscan monk, mystic, theologian, and philosopher; author of a Life of St Francis and Journey of the Soul to God Feast day: July 14

Bonaventure

(Bonaventura; Giovanni Fidanza). Born 1221, in Tuscany; died July 15, 1274, in Lyons. Italian philosopher and Catholic Church leader.

Bonaventure was one of the most important representatives of late Scholasticism. He became a cardinal in 1273. He was canonized in 1482 and was listed among the five greatest teachers of the Church in 1587. As general of the Franciscan Order (beginning in 1257), Bonaventure persecuted the supporters of the order’s radical wing. He studied at the University of Paris, where he later became a professor.

Bonaventure developed the ideas of Plato and Augustine; he maintained a lukewarm attitude toward Aristotelianism. He thought of universáis as the divine prototypes of things. Bonaventure believed that complete knowledge could be achieved neither through the senses nor by Scholastic speculation, but only through mystical contemplation and an understanding of the absolute through an ecstatic union with god. Bonaventure’s orthodox mysticism, influenced by Bernard of Clairvaux, was in opposition to the heretical mysticism of Joachim of Floris.

WORKS

Opera omnia, vols. 1–10. [Quaracchi] 1882–1902.

REFERENCE

Gilson, E. La Philosophie de S. Bonaventura, 2nd ed. Paris, 1943.

S. M. STAM

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Drawing on the works of writers and artists from Thomas a Kempis to Terry Pratchett, Saint Bonaventure, Bob Dylan and Brian Eno, Lewis-Anthony traces five circles of thought inspired by the circle of thorns behind the head of Jesus in Bosch's picture showing how much and how little has passed in politics, science, temperaments, devotions and the accepted nature of Christ himself in the years after he asked his apostles "Who do you say that I am?

Circles of thorns; Hieronymus Bosch and being human by Reference & Research Book News

Todd Therrien of defending state champion Saint Bonaventure High School in Ventura, Calif.

Yanked scholarship offer peeves SoCal prep coach by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

Following World War II, he attended Fordham University for two years and later transferred to and graduated from Saint Bonaventure University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree on June 3, 1951.

William Burke Goodwin, 83 by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)

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