The mind's road to God
By: St Bonaventure
Publisher: St Athanasius
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Potosi, WI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
ISBN-13: 9781497457553
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: God; Doctrinal Theology; Early works to 1800; Mysticism; Catholic Church; Medieval Philosophy
Work titles: Itinerarium mentis ad Deum
Description: "There should be little need of apologizing for a new translation into English of Saint Bonaventura's "Itinerarium Mentis ad Deum," for it has been recognized by all serious historians of philosophy as one of the shorter masterpieces of medieval philosophy. It sets forth in very few pages a whole system of metaphysics; it illustrates a philosophical method; it typifies the thinking of one of the great monastic orders of the West; it stands at the beginning of Renaissance science as one of those documents in which the future can be seen in germ. Besides its importance as an outstanding work in metaphysics, a work comparable to Descartes' "Discourse on Method", Leibniz's Monadology, or Hume's "Enquiry" in its compactness and suggestiveness, it represents a strain of medieval though which has been too much neglected since the publication of "Aeterni Patris", in 1879"--page 4 of cover.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Biographical note; title: Introduction; title: Prologue; title: Of the stages in the ascent to God and of his reflection in his traces in the universe ; Of the reflection of God in his traces in the sensible world ; Of the reflection of God in His image stamped upon our natural powers ; Of the reflection of God in His image reformed by the gifts of grace ; Of the reflection of the divine unity in its primary name, which is being ; Of the reflection of the most blessed Trinity in its name, which is good ; Of the mental and mystical elevation, in which repose is given to the intellect when the affections pass entirely into God through elevation.