The Franciscan Institute: 46 books
Rejoicing in the Works of the Lord
Beauty in the Franciscan Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The special focus of this study is the appreciation of beauty in the writing of two great theorists of the tradition, Bonaventure of Bagnoregio and John Duns Scotus.
by Emmanuel Falque
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Properly original, the new version of this essay intends both to nourish debate and differentiate points of view. In its new articulation, the book justifies work that has been carried out since. It justifies the sense of Franciscan rootedness that has never been denied and at the same time opens...
The Infinity of God and a Finite World
A Franciscan Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This volume, focuses on the issue of the infinity of God, particularly within the Roman Catholic tradition. The Old and New Testament do not mention God’s infinity. From 100 to 1200, only a few Christian theologians offered some insights into divine infinity. One of the earliest in-depth presentations...
Collations on the Hexaemeron
Conferences on the Six Days of Creation: The Illuminations of the Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Ten years after becoming Minister General, and after presiding over his third General Chapter (Narbonne 1260, Pisa 1263, Paris 1266), Bonaventure began a threefold series of Easter season collationes in 1267 at the Franciscan Convent of Cordeliers at the University of Paris. Why? To answer this question,...
Peter of John Olivi’s Commentary on Luke’s Gospel
Thirty Days of Reflection and Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The Admonitions of St. Francis
Sources and Meanings
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This text offers a fresh translation of each admonition, parallel texts previously noted by other scholars or newly uncovered by Karris, as well as comments on each admonition verse by verse. The reader is led into Francis’s “theological workshop” where it becomes clear how Francis imprinted his own logo on the spiritual traditions he inherited.
Anti-Catholicism in American History: A Reinterpretation
Human Identity Needs Theory and the Bible Riots of 1844
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Kyle Haden, OFM, examines the tumultuous and dangerous religious and social landscape of antebellum America and vividly demonstrates the religious and social constructs that helped define "true American identity," as this was understood by the Protestant majority and experienced by the influx...
Spiritual Warfare
And Six Other Spiritual Writings of Peter of John Olivi
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
While Peter of John Olivi (d. 1298) is generally classified more as a theologian and/or philosopher than as a spiritual director, Robert Karris presents several short works by Olivi which clearly indicate that he was concerned for the spiritual progress of lay people, too. Besides Olivi’s four spiritual...
The Journey of the Soul into God
Itinerarium Mentis in Deum
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2002
This new translation of The Journey of the Soul into God—Itinerarium Mentis in Deum—signals a milestone in Bonaventurian scholarship in North America. Based on the famed 1956 Boehner edition, this volume presents the text with a new inclusive-language translation, authoritative notes by Boehner...
St. Bonaventure’s Commentary on John’s Gospel
Thirty Days of Reflection and Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
It seems that a word of general orientation is in order for those coming to Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Gospel of John for the first time. Bonaventure’s style of commentary consists of a detailed outline of the text, running commentary on the individual verses, and answers to questions that...
by Zachary Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1996
In his treatise, De Reductione Artium ad Theologiam, a work of remarkable brevity and originality of expression, St. Bonaventure deals with the relation of the finite to the infinite, of the natural to the supernatural in a way which well establishes his preeminence as a mystic, a philosopher, and...
Franciscans and their Finances
Economics in a Disenchanted World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
A book about Franciscans and their economics and the way that Franciscans are developing a more relational economy as they serve the poor and vulnerable around the world.Francis fraternal economy is not primarily about dollars and cents, market shares or stock derivatives. It is about the destiny...
by Luigi Padovesa
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
“This edition of Bishop Padovese’s “Piccoli dialoghi fra santi di marmo” provides the Church an important resource for spiritual development. In the midst of time spent in Rome for meetings of Pope Francis’ Council of Cardinals, I occasionally have the opportunity to walk through St. Peter’s...
Bonaventure Revisited
Companion to the Breviloquium
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
The goal of this collaborative commentary on Bonaventure's Breviloquium is twofold. First, it aims to make the text of the Breviloquium itself more accessible to a wider udience, including those who have had no prior introduction to the Seraphic Doctor's theology. In addition to providing substantive...