Commentary on St. Bonaventure's Breviloquim

   The following are selections from St. Bonaventure's Breviloquim with my commentary added to the work. Several sections from the Breviloquim itself will be chosen to be placed on this page with commentary. They will be chosen to help produce an in depth pursuit of several issues in Christian philosophy, including but not limited to issues concerning: The Trinity, Evil, and the Sacraments. The commentary itself will be somewhere in between a scholarly commentary and a popular level commentary; most of it will be closer to popular in level, since it is seeking to help the reader understand what is being said, however, it will occasionally get more scholarly in style from time to time.
    The Breviloquim itself was St. Bonaventure's brief "Summa" produced in order to address, in a brief format, the issues raised in his Commentary on the Book of Sentences. As such, it is the most concise form of St. Bonaventure's systematic theology.
    The text of the Breviloquim is from Erwin Esser Nemmer's translation, published by N. Herder Book Co, Queen Square: London: 1946.

The following pieces are available:

Part I: Chapter I      (A Summary of the Seven Topics with which Theology Deals)
Part III: Chapter I   (On the Origin of Evil)
Part IV: Chapter 2  (The Incarnation: The Union of Natures)
Part IV: Chapter 3  (The Incarnation: Its Mode)
Part IV: Chapter 4  (The Incarnation: The Fullness of Time)
Part IV: Chapter 6  (The Fullness of Wisdom in His Intellect)

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