Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris Book contents
- Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris
- Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One Preliminaries
- Part Two Thomas Aquinas
- Part Three Bonaventure
- 10 Bonaventure’s Inception Principium
- 11 Bonaventure’s Resumptio
- 12 Searching the Depths of the Lombard
- 13 Exalting Our Understanding
- 14 The Spirit of the Lord Is Upon Me
- 15 Bonaventure, Sermo Modernus–Style Preaching, and Biblical Commentary
- 16 A Master’s Praise of Scripture
- 17 The Union of Paris and Assisi
- 18 The Reduction of the Arts to Theology Redux
- 19 Summary and Concluding Remarks
- Appendix 1 Outlines of the Divisiones Textus of the Books of the Bible from the Inception Resumptio Addresses of Four Thirteenth-Century Masters
- Works Cited
- Index
13 - Exalting Our Understanding
The Prologue to Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Gospel of John
from Part Three - Bonaventure
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2021
- Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris
- Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One Preliminaries
- Part Two Thomas Aquinas
- Part Three Bonaventure
- 10 Bonaventure’s Inception Principium
- 11 Bonaventure’s Resumptio
- 12 Searching the Depths of the Lombard
- 13 Exalting Our Understanding
- 14 The Spirit of the Lord Is Upon Me
- 15 Bonaventure, Sermo Modernus–Style Preaching, and Biblical Commentary
- 16 A Master’s Praise of Scripture
- 17 The Union of Paris and Assisi
- 18 The Reduction of the Arts to Theology Redux
- 19 Summary and Concluding Remarks
- Appendix 1 Outlines of the Divisiones Textus of the Books of the Bible from the Inception Resumptio Addresses of Four Thirteenth-Century Masters
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Gospel of John was revised, scholars tell us, when he was an early master, but it was based on materials he had prepared several years before as a baccalarius biblicus. An interesting characteristic of this prologue is that, unlike his later prologue to his Commentary on the Gospel of Luke in which Bonaventure spent very little time talking about St. Luke, in this prologue, the figure of St. John dominates. The praise of the Gospel is carried out primarily by praising its author because, as Bonaventure comments, “the commendation of the author redounds upon the work.”
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- Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval ParisPreaching, Prologues, and Biblical Commentary, pp. 306 - 318Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021