Saint Bonaventure's Disputed Questions on the Knowledge of Christ

by Bonaventure

The Disputed Questions on the Knowledge of Christ with a translation by Zachary Hayes is the first English translation of this text. Bonaventure's study is done in the medieval scholastic style of disputed questions and shows how he, as scholar, was at the center of what Christianity is about. Here we witness him probing part of the basic meaning of the Christian faith and of his own piety.

Genres: Philosophy

Paperback

First published December 1, 1992

About the author

Bonaventure (b. 1221 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 on 14 April 1482 by Pope Sixtus IV and declared a Doctor of the Church in the year 1588 by 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.