- Bonaventure - Wikipedia
Bonaventure was formally canonised in 1482 by the Franciscan Pope Sixtus IV, and ranked along with Thomas Aquinas as the greatest of the Doctors of the Church by another Franciscan, Pope Sixtus V, in 1587 Bonaventure was regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of the Middle Ages [19]
- Saint Bonaventure | 13th Century Italian Theologian Franciscan Friar . . .
Bonaventure was particularly noted in his day as a man with the rare ability to reconcile diverse traditions in theology and philosophy He united different doctrines in a synthesis containing his personal conception of truth as a road to the love of God
- Saint Bonaventure - Franciscan Media
Saint Bonaventure was in many ways the second founder of the Franciscan Order He served as the Minister General of the Franciscans and as the Cardinal Bishop of Albano Through his teaching, writing, and mysticism, Bonaventure captured the spirit of Saint Francis and renewed the order accordingly
- St. Bonaventure - Saints Angels - Catholic Online
St Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (Feast day-July 15) St Bonaventure, known as 'the seraphic doctor,' was born at Bagnoregio, in the Lazio region of central Italy, in 1221 He received the name of Bonaventure in consequence of an exclamation of St Francis of Assisi, when, in
- Bonaventure - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Bonaventure’s known works all derive from his career as a student and master of theology at the University of Paris and from his career as Minister General Throughout his corpus, Bonaventure witnesses to his philosophical training and makes philosophical claims that influenced later thinkers
- Bonaventure (1217 1221-1274) - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Bonaventure was a philosopher, a theologian, a prolific author of spiritual treatises, an influential prelate of the Medieval Church, the Minister General of the Franciscan Order, and, later in his life, a Cardinal
- Christian Thinkers 101: A Crash Course on St. Bonaventure
St Bonaventure (c 1221–1274) was born in the Tuscany region of Italy during the High Middle Ages Bonaventure studied at the University of Paris and became the most eminent theologian of the Franciscan order (named after St Francis of Assisi) in the Catholic Church
- Saint Bonaventure: Theologian and Doctor of the Church
On July 15, the entire Church joins Franciscans in celebrating the memory of St Bonaventure (1217 21-1274), Doctor of the Church Early life Bonaventure was a native of the picturesque Italian hill town of Bagnoregio, about 90 miles from Rome His father was a physician, who sent him on for studies at the University of Paris around 1235
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