St. Bonaventure was an Italian Franciscan who died in 1274. He was a theologian and bishop, and a Doctor of the Church. | St. Philip Neri Parish

Blessed feast of St. Bonaventure! Today, we’d like to share this clip of Dr. Jared Staudt discussing the parallels between St. Bonaventure and St. Thomas Aquinas. Dr. Staudt reminds us that St. Bonaventure is known as the greatest of all Franciscan theologians and is truly the embodiment of Franciscan theology. The relationship and complementarity between St. Bonaventure and St. Thomas’ writings is a beautiful example of how one school of thought cannot fully exhaust all of Theology itself and h