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Although Bonaventurian scholarship has seen a great expansion in the past forty years, there remains no English volume that provides a general yet detailed study of Bonaventure for scholars. The Companion to Bonaventure provides an invaluable guide to understanding him. Together the essays deliver a critical overview of the current research, the major themes in Bonaventure’s life and writings, and how they are being reinterpreted at the start of the twenty-first century. As a great 13th century scholastic luminary, Bonaventure exists as a vital contributor to the early Franciscan movement that swept across the theological and spiritual landscape of the High Middle Ages. The paradoxical simplicity and complexity of Bonaventure’s synthesis has made, and will continue to provide, a profound contributions to Franciscan and Christian reflection. This Companion will help in understanding why this is the case.

Contributors include: Joshua Benson, Jacques Bougerol, Ilia Delio, Christopher Cullen, Jared Goff, Jay M. Hammond, Zachary Hayes, J. A. Wayne Hellmann, Kevin L. Hughes, Timothy J. Johnson, David Keck, Gregory LaNave, Pietro Maranesi, Dominic V. Monti, and Marianne Schlosser.

Jay M. Hammond, Ph.D. (1998) in Historical Theology, Saint Louis University, is an Associate Professor at Saint Louis University. He has published on early Franciscan sources, specifically Francis's writings, those of Bonaventure, and the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi.

J. A. Wayne Hellmann, Dr. (1973) in Theology, Ludwig Maximilians-Universität in München. He has published extensively on the early Franciscan Sources including Divine and Created Order in Bonaventure's Thought, the three volume, Francis of Assisi: Early Documents, and the three volume The Writings of Francis and Clare of Assisi.

Jared Goff, Ph.D. (2013) in Historical Theology, Saint Louis University, is an Assistant Professor at Mount Angel Seminary. He is working to publish his first book of Bonaventure's De Mysterio Trinitatis.