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IMC 2018: Sessions

Session 110: Bonaventure of Bagnoregio: In His Own Words

Monday 2 July 2018, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:Franciscaans Studiecentrum, Tilburg University
Organiser:Krijn Pansters, Department of Biblical Sciences & Church History, Tilburg University
Moderator/Chair:Neslihan Şenocak, Department of History, Columbia University
Paper 110-aNatural and Divine Law: Bonaventure and His Sources
(Language: English)
Lydia Schumacher, Department of Theology & Religious Studies, King's College London
Index terms: Religious Life, Theology
Paper 110-bMoral and Spiritual Life: Bonaventure and His Virtues
(Language: English)
Krijn Pansters, Department of Biblical Sciences & Church History, Tilburg University
Index terms: Religious Life, Theology
Paper 110-cTheology and Reality: Bonaventure and His Lives of Francis
(Language: English)
Helmut Flachenecker, Institut für Geschichte, Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg / Projekt 'Germania Sacra', Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
Index terms: Religious Life, Theology
Abstract

The Franciscan theologian and philosopher St Bonaventure of Bagnoregio uses the six wings of the seraph as an important analogical construct in his mystical work The Journey of the Mind to God. We will do the same in our modest look into his life and work, in order to illustrate how his main writings mirror the six major stages of his journey to God: brother, master, minister, pastor, biographer, and bishop. In this session we will focus on the Seraphic Doctor's legal, moral, and biographical opera as a window to his vita.