St. Bonaventure - On The Degrees of Ascension to God

St. Bonaventure - On The Degrees of Ascension to God

Author: Catholic and Orthodox Audiobooks October 27, 2022 Duration: 19:59

After leaving the Parisian chair, Bonaventura retires in meditation on Mount Verna, to embark on a contemplative itinerary that leads him to God. The first stage of this journey is the contemplation of the creatures. Bonaventure shows the reader the degrees of the ascent to God, degrees that man can know and travel through the prayer.

The physical world is described as a mirror and as a book through which it is possible to reach God: «He who is not brightened [illustratur] by such splendors of created things is blind; he who does not awake at such clamors is deaf; he who does not praise God on account of [ex] all these effects is mute; he who does not turn towards [advertit] the First Principle on account of such indications [indiciis] is stupid.»

https://inters.org/Bonaventure-God-Vestiges-Universe


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