Bonaventure's 'Journey of the Soul into God'

Randall Smith is Full Professor in the Department of Theology at the University of St. Thomas, Houston. He is the author of five books, among them Aquinas, Bonaventure and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris (Cambridge, 2021).

• Introduction: Part I. Background and Context of the Itinerarium: 1. Bonaventure, the Franciscans, and the Homiletic Revolution of the Thirteenth Century; Sermo Modernus-Style Preaching and the Itinerarium: 2. Recognizing the Divisions as the Framework of the Text; 3. Where Did Bonaventure Get His Divisions?; 4. Bonaventure and the Nine Choirs of Angels; 5. Dilatatio: Methods of 'Unfolding' a Sermon; 6. Imagery as a Structuring Device; 7. Leading the Mind Back and Up to God: The Reduction of the Arts to Theology and the Itinerarium; Part II. Commentary: 8. Looking Outside: The Preface and First Pair of Wings; 9. Looking Inside: The Second Pair of Wings; 10. Looking Above: The Third Pair of Wings and the Crucified Christ; 11. Concluding Remarks; Appendix: Analytic Outline of the Itinerarium.

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