‘Deus summe cognoscibilis’: The Current Theological Relevance of Saint Bonaventure

The volume presents the proceedings of the international congress, fruit

of a common research project involving 48 scholars, that took place in

Rome to celebrate the 8th centenary of Saint Bonaventure’s birth. The

theme, Deus summe cognoscibilis , could sound, in the

contemporary agnostic, secular context, like a provocation. However, the

approach of the symposium was to consider the current theological

relevance of Saint Bonaventure , focusing on thinking with our

author about a number of themes: theological method (philosophy,

theology and mysticism); revelation (in Scripture and history); creation

(in Laudato si’ and evolution); Christology (the triplex

Verbum and logos of the Cross); ecclesiology and Trinitarian

dimensions of sacramental theology; pre-phenomenological Trinitarian

theology, and our own divine filiation. An appendix contains a

previously unpublished text of J. Ratzinger about Bonaventure’s

theological method. The volume has also two indexes (authors and

references to the works of Bonaventure).