basis. The fact that today missionary dynamism threatens to trickle away into nothing goes hand in hand with the deficit in philosophy which characterizes the contemporary theological scene. But we can identify another justification of theology in Bonaventure’s work; though it seems at first to point in an entirely different direction, its inner tendency is to merge with what has been said so far. The Saint is aware that the citizenship of philosophy in theology is a contested issue. He concedes
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