Introduction: Bonaventure and Ps-Dionysius
Ascent of the soul God is the cause of all things Love, prayer and union with God Conclusion Discussion prompts 2: Franciscans, Ascent, Apophaticism and Kataphaticism. Bonaventure was one of the later theologians to advance the Franciscans tradition, together with Robert Grosseteste and after John Scottus Eriugena (Corrigan and Harrington 1). Ps-Dionysius the Areopagite was quite a notable influence in Saint Bonaventure’s writings, philosophically and theologically. Bonaventure referred to Ps-Dionysius as the “prince of mystics”. Saint Bonaventure advanced the Platonizing and mystical mode of speculation just like Ps-Dionysius. To Bonaventure, the intellectual element is ...
