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St. Bonaventure’s love of wisdom was intimately related to his love of God—so much so that he is called the “Seraphic Doctor” for the ardor that accompanied his great mind. What does this sort of mind have to say about the history of man, a topic long dear to Christian thinkers, especially owing to the Incarnation and the expectation of the Second Coming? In this academic treatise, then-Father...

God taught by Dionysius the Areopagite.1 Since this wisdom arises from “revelation,” and since it is therefore “revelation,”2 and since the “revelation” of the final age clearly must be conceived in terms of this form of wisdom,3 we must now determine its place more clearly within the whole of Bonaventure’s historical thinking. This will simultaneously involve a clarification of the role which Bonaventure ascribed to Pseudo-Dionysius within theology.
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