Saint Bonaventure: Friar, Teacher, Minister, Bishop
A Celebration of the Eighth Centenary of His Birth
Marie Kolbe Zamora
Timothy Johnson
Katherine Wrisley-Shelby
9781576594469
742 pages
The Franciscan Institute
Overview
This volume represents an homage by contemporary scholars to the intellectual genius, the spiritual virtues, and the fraternal love that characterized the life and ministry of Bonaventure of Bagnoregio. It is also an expression of the marvelous state of the ressourcement of the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition now being accomplished in the English-speaking world. For the past several decades, there has been a unique and sustained commitment by Franciscan communities in North America to pursue and support an in-depth study of the sources of the Franciscan movement and to present those findings to the church and world in critical editions, commentaries, books and journals. The partnership between academic scholars and communities of practice in the Franciscan tradition bears fruit in this important new work. This text celebrates the 800th anniversary of the birth of the Seraphic Doctor. It arrives during the 80th anniversary of the Franciscan Institute, an academic research, publication and educational center of the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition at the first Franciscan University in the United States, appropriately dedicated to the memory of the friar, teacher, minister and bishop, St. Bonaventure.
Author Bio
Marie Kolbe Zamora is a member of the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity and resides within the Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds an S.T.B., S.T.L. in Dogmatic Theology, and S.T.D. from the Pontifical Gregorian University, specializing in Bonaventure and Ecclesiology. Formerly the Chair of the Department of Theology and Ministry at Silver Lake College of the Holy Family (WI), she is dedicating herself to independent scholarship and public speaking for now.Timothy J. Johnson is the Craig and Audrey Thorn Distinguished Professor of Religion at Flagler College. His recent publications include the co-edited volumes, The Prayed Francis: Liturgical Vitae and Franciscan Identity in the Thirteenth Century (2019) and Preaching and New Worlds: Sermons as Mirrors of Realms Near and Far (2019).Katherine Wrisley Shelby holds a PhD in Theology from Boston College and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Theology at Providence College. She is the co-editor of Bonaventure Revisited: Companion to the Breviloquium (Franciscan Institute, 2017), and more recently, The Medieval Franciscans and the Virgin Mary: Mater Misericordiae Sanctissima et Dolorosa (Brill, 2019).
