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COMMENTARIA IN LIBRUM QUARTUM SENTENTIARUM

by St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, O. F. M.

DOCTOR SERAPHICUS

WITH TEXT OF THE BOOK OF SENTENCES BY PETER LOMBARD

 

ENGLISH TRANSLATION by The Franciscan Archive

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This "Summa" of Theology stands shoulder-to-shoulder with that of St. Thomas Aquinas, but which differs from it by retaining the outlook of the Greek and Latin Fathers, while reconciling Aristotle with St. Augustine. 


 

 

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BOOK IV
DE  DOCTRINA  SIGNORUM

Foreword (Prośmium)   [introduction to the contents of Book IV of Peter of Lombard's Book of Sentences], by St. Bonaventure

DISTINCTION I
PART I, Chapter 1: On the Sacraments.
Chapter 2: What is a Sacrament.
Chapter 3: What is a sign.
Chapter 4: How sign and Sacrament differ.
Chapter 5: Why the Sacraments have been instituted.
Chapter 6: On the difference of the Old and New Sacraments.
PART II, Chapter 7: On circumcision.
Chapter 8: The remedy which they had, who were before circumcision.
Chapter 9: On the institution of circumcision and its cause.
Chapter 10: On the little ones departed before the eighth day, on which circumcision was done.

DISTINCTION I : Part I: On the Sacraments in General, by St. Bonaventure

Article Sole: On the Sacraments in General

Question 1: On the Institution of the Sacraments
Question 2: On the Signification of the Sacraments
Question 3: On the Contents of the Sacraments
Question 4: On the Efficacy of the Sacraments
Question 5: On the Difference between the Old and New Sacraments
Question 6: On the Grace conferred in the Sacraments

DOUBTS on the text of Part I of Master Peter's First Distinction

DISTINCTION I : Part II: On Circumcision and things annexed

Article I: On the Remedy for Original Sin in the time of the Natural Law

Question 1: Whether unformed faith sufficed for the remedy of original (sin)?
Question 2: Whether for the Remission of Original Sin Faith alone would suffice?
Question 3: Whether in Adults there was required the Virtue of Sacrifice for the Remedy of Original (Sin)?

Article II: On the Remedy (for sin) in the written Law or On Circumcision

Question 1: On the Institution of Circumcision
Question 2: On the Form or Integrity of Circumcision
Question 3: On the Efficacy of Circumcision

DOUBTS on the text of Part II of Master Peter's First Distinction

 

DISTINCTION IX : "Concerning the Sacrament of the Eucharist in respect to those receiving It."

ARTICLE I : Question I: "Concerning the twofold manner of eating the Eucharist."

DISTINCTION XXIV: "Concerning the Sacrament of orders as regards those things which dispose one to receive it."

ARTICLE I : Question I: "Whether the ordinandi ought to be tonsured or receive the corona."

 

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OF MASTER PETER’S BOOK OF SENTENCES AND ST. BONAVENTURE’S COMMENTARIA,
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