A companion to Bonaventure / / edited by Jay M. Hammond, J.A. Wayne Hellmann, Jared Goff.

• Superior document: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition : a series of handbooks and reference works on the intellectual and religious life of Europe, 500-1800, volume 48
• TeilnehmendeR: Hammond, Jay M., Ph. D.; Hellmann, J. A. Wayne.; Goff, Jared.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 48.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (598 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Although 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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Jay M. Hammond and J.A. Wayne Hellmann -- Bonaventure: Life and Works / 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 M. Cullen -- Bonaventure as Exegete / Jacques Guy 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 -- 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.