'Deus summe cognoscibilis'

The volume presents the proceedings of the international congress, fruit
of a common research project involving 48 scholars, that took place in
Rome to celebrate the 8th centenary of Saint Bonaventure’s birth. The
theme, “<i>Deus summe cognoscibilis</i>”, could sound, in the
contemporary agnostic, secular context, like a provocation. However, the
approach of the symposium was to consider “the current theological
relevance of Saint Bonaventure”, focusing on thinking <i>with</i> our
author about a number of themes: theological method (philosophy,
theology and mysticism); revelation (in Scripture and history); creation
(in <i>Laudato si</i>’ and evolution); Christology (the <i>triplex
Verbum</i> and <i>logos</i> of the Cross); ecclesiology and Trinitarian
dimensions of sacramental theology; pre-phenomenological Trinitarian
theology, and our own divine filiation. An appendix contains a
previously unpublished text of J. Ratzinger about Bonaventure’s
theological method. The volume has also two indexes (authors and
references to the works of Bonaventure).