Tree of Life:

by Bonaventure, Stephen Joseph Wolf (Editor)

Tree of Incarnation, Passion & Glory, Saint Bonaventure on the Christ Story. This is Saint Bonaventure's 13th Century collection of fifty meditations on the Incarnation, Passion, and Glory of Jesus Christ. Following the 1978 translation by Dr. Ewert Cousins, parish priest and spiritual director Stephen Joseph Wolf offers a paraphrase with brush-ink drawings.

Genres: Classics

79 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 30, 2012

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.

Reviews

[Florent · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tree of Life are meditations on the life of Christ and his Apostles.

It covers all the mysteries in a shorter and simpler form than a Gospel.
I now give those meditations for high schoolers and catechumens. And I read them weekly.

I can't believe this masterpiece from one of the greatest Doctors of the Catholic Church is so unknown.