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, “Deus summe cognoscibilis”, 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 with our
author about a number of themes: theological method (philosophy,
theology and mysticism); revelation (in Scripture and history); creation
(in Laudato si’ and evolution); Christology (the triplex
Verbum and logos 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previously unpublished text of J. Ratzinger about Bonaventure’s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).