The Theology of History in Saint Bonaventure

Author: Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

Publisher: Cluny Press

The Theology of History in Saint Bonaventure is Joseph Ratzinger’s professorial dissertation, originally published in German in 1959. Focusing on the nature of revelation itself and the distinctive character of Bonaventure’s historical setting, Ratzinger weaves together the various statements which comprise Bonaventure’s theology of history and explicating therefrom the focal point of his eschatology and soteriology. First appearing in this English translation in 1969, The Theology of History in Saint Bonaventure remains a significant contribution to eschatology and the study of the intersection of revelation, metaphysics, and history.