Download Now Breviloquium Articulated By Bonaventure Issued As Paperback

wrote the Breviloquium in, the same year that he was elected Minister General of the rather tumultuous Franciscan order, In that light, it's maybe most helpful to see this work as a sort of textbook, designed for young friars who were entering the order and the university without a large background of theological training.
It's a surprisingly readable introduction to medieval theology, and it's based upon a deductive method of inquiry Bonaventure starts with assumptions of the faith and derives conclusions from there rather than the more traditionally scholastic method of induction.


Bonaventure's theology, broadly speaking, it structured around an 'exitus redditus' formula, which is Latin way of saying that his theology is conceptualized around the idea of Creation processing outwards from God and even after the introduction of original sin Creation then striving back towards God.
His seven sections focus on God particularly God as Trinity, Creation, Original Sin, Christ, Grace, and the Last Judgment, He's a lot like Anselm in much of his thought, with a healthy dose of Peter Lombard tossed in,

Along with Aquinas, Bonaventure is one of the Big Medieval Theologians and is certainly worth a read, I think on the whole I like his sitelinkThe Journey of the Mind to God a bit better, though, One of the works of Bonaventure that demonstrates his skill in "the divine art of synthesis" and is considered

"the capstone of his academic careet.
" This is Bonaventure's comprehensive presentation of Christian doctrine in a form suitable for instructional purposes, It can be used by anyone with an interest in the writings of the Seraphic Doctor, Bonaventure b.as John of Fidanza was an Italian medieval scholastic theologian and philosopher, the eighth Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, He was a Cardinal Bishop of Albano, He was canonized onAprilby Pope Sixtus IV and declared a Doctor of the Church in the yearby Pope Sixtus V, He is known as the Seraphic Doctor Latin: Doctor Seraphicus, Many writings believed in the Middle Ages to be his are now collected under the name Pseudo Bonaventura, Bonaventure b.as John of Fidanza was an Italian medieval scholastic theologian and philosopher, the eighth Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, He was a Cardinal Bishop of Albano, He was canonized onAprilby Pope Sixtus IV and declared a Doctor of the Church in the yearby Pope Sixtus V, He is known as the "Seraphic Doctor" Latin: "Doctor Seraphicus", Many writings believed in the Middle Ages to be his are now collected under the name Pseudo Bonaventura, sitelink.