St. Bonaventure

Franciscan friar, Cardinal, and Doctor of the Church. The Seraphic Doctor. Listed last among named scholars who used Jerome's version of Scripture exclusively.

Works

• Works of Bonaventure

Preliminaries

• PREFACE TO THE READER (1) — Listed last among named scholars who used Jerome's version

  "Thomas, Bonaventure, and all the others who have flourished in the Church over these nine hundred years"

Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture

• Chapter V: On the Dispositions Required for This Study — Relates that Francis, though unlettered, when asked about difficulties of Scripture and Theology, responded so aptly he surpassed doctors

  "St. Bonaventure relates that St. Francis, unlettered though he was"

Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)

• Verse 3: And God said: Let there be light — Cited for the view that light was a luminous body

  "Bede, Hugh, the Master, St. Thomas, St. Bonaventure, Lyra, and Abulensis hold that this light was a luminous body"

• Verse 6: Let there be a firmament — Cited for the view that the upper waters are the crystalline heaven

  "Bonaventure, Lyra, Abulensis, Cajetan, Catharinus, and others take the upper waters as the crystalline heaven."

• Heaven and Earth: Four Interpretations — Cited for asserting the empyrean opinion is the more common one

  "so much so that Saint Bonaventure asserts this opinion to be the more common one"

Related

• St. Jerome