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Into God, Student Edition

其他書名	Itinerarium Mentis in Deum of Saint Bonaventure
出版	Catholic University of America Press, 2025-06-27
主題	Foreign Language Study / LatinReligion / Christianity / CatholicReligion / Christian Church / History
ISBN	08132398269780813239828
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=1C8X0QEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Into God is the most celebrated work from one of medieval Christendom?s greatest thinkers, the Franciscan friar and theologian Saint Bonaventure. This fresh and engaging translation from master scholar Father Regis Armstrong, OFM, Cap. supplants existing English versions of Bonaventure?s Itinerarium mentis in Deum and represents the new standard for classroom use. This translation avoids the overuse of Latin cognates while remaining critically faithful to Bonaventure?s text. The English of the student edition matches that of Fr. Armstrong?s scholarly edition, but unencumbered by the Latin text or Fr. Armstrong?s detailed commentary, allowing the student to encounter the text for themselves. Footnotes provide Bonaventure?s Scriptural citation or allusions.

Esteemed scholar of medieval Franciscanism Joshua C. Benson writes in his introduction to the student edition about how he met the text as an undergraduate:

I blurted out, ?What else is there to read in the Middle Ages besides Thomas Aquinas?? My professor invited me in and told me to read Saint Bonaventure?s Itinerarium. His final counsel that evening was to read Bonaventure?s text slowly, line by line, in the chapel. I went to a Catholic bookstore the next day. I can still recall holding the book in my hand for the first time, and I can still see the first page as I opened the book in the chapel. Bonaventure?s Scriptural invocation of God as the Father of lights who gives perfect gifts immediately spoke to me. By the fourth paragraph of the prologue, where I read that knowledge is insufficient without love, I knew that I never wanted to be apart from this saint and his thoughts. I also quickly learned that I didn?t know what all of his thoughts meant. But this did not prevent me from falling in love with the text. The Itinerarium is a truly great book, and it doesn?t always matter with such texts if we understand all their ideas equally or even well. Though we should hope to understand great books better over time, they never fail to speak to us; they become a part of our lives, and as our lives grow and change, so does our reading of them.