Editing Bonaventure (section)

===Writings===
Bonaventure was formally [[canonised]] in 1482 by the Franciscan [[Pope Sixtus IV]], and ranked along with Thomas Aquinas as the greatest of the [[Doctors of the Church]] by another Franciscan, [[Pope Sixtus V]], in 1587. Bonaventure was regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of the Middle Ages.<ref name=robinson>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02648c.htm |last=Robinson |first=Paschal |title=St. Bonaventure |encyclopedia=The Catholic Encyclopedia |volume=2 |location=New York |publisher=Robert Appleton Company |year=1907 |access-date=5 January 2013}}</ref> His works, as arranged in the most recent Critical Edition by the Quaracchi Fathers ([[Collegio S. Bonaventura]]), consist of a ''Commentary on the Sentences of Lombard'', in four volumes, and eight other volumes, including a ''Commentary on the Gospel of St Luke'' and a number of smaller works; the most famous of which are ''The Mind's Road to God'' (''Itinerarium mentis in Deum''), an outline of his theology or ''Brief Reading'' (''Breviloquium''), ''Reduction of the Arts to Theology'' (''De reductione artium ad theologiam''), and Soliloquy on the Four Spiritual Exercises (''Soliloquium de quatuor mentalibus exercitiis''), ''The Tree of Life'' (''Lignum vitae''), and ''The Triple Way'' (''De Triplici via''), the latter three written for the spiritual direction of his fellow Franciscans.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}

The German philosopher Dieter Hattrup denies that ''Reduction of the Arts to Theology'' was written by Bonaventure, claiming that the style of thinking does not match Bonaventure's original style.<ref>{{cite book |first=Dieter |last=Hattrup|title=Ekstatik der Geschichte. Die Entwicklung der christologischen Erkenntnistheorie Bonaventuras|location=Paderborn|publisher= Schöningh|year= 1993|isbn=3-506-76273-7|language=de}}</ref> His position is no longer tenable given recent research: the text remains "indubitably authentic".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Schlosser|first1=Marianne|page=12. n.7|chapter=Bonaventure: Life and Works|quote=This treatise has always been recognized as indubitably authentic. A few years ago, Dieter Hattrup voiced his doubts: 'Bonaventura zwischen Mystik und Mystifikation. Wer ist der Autor von De reductione?' ''Theologie und Glaube'' 87 (1997): 541–562. However, the recent research of Joshua Benson indicates the text's authenticity: 'Identifying the Literary Genre of the De reductione artium ad theologiam: Bonaventure's Inaugural Lecture at Paris', ''Franciscan Studies'' 67 (2009): 149–178.|editor1-last=Hammond|editor1-first=Jay M.|editor2-last=Hellmann|editor2-first=J. A. Wayne|editor3-last=Goff|editor3-first=Jared|title=A Companion to Bonaventure|series=Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition|date=2013|publisher=Brill|location=Boston|isbn=978-90-04-26072-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Identifying the Literary Genre of the "De reductione artium ad theologiam": Bonaventure's Inaugural Lecture at Paris|journal=Franciscan Studies|date=2009|volume=67|pages=149–178|jstor=i40092600 |publisher=Franciscan Institute Publications|doi=10.1353/frc.0.0031|s2cid=191451067|last1=Benson|first1=Joshua C.|issue=1 }}</ref>

A work that for many years was falsely attributed to Bonaventure, ''De septem itineribus aeternitatis'', was actually written by [[Rudolf von Biberach]] ({{Circa|1270}} – 1329).<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Hindsley|first1=Leonard P.|title=Reviewed Work: De septem itinerabus aeternitatis. Mystik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Abteilung I, Christliche Mystik Band 1 & 2 by Rudolf von Biberach, edited and translated by Margot Schmidt|journal=Mystics Quarterly|date=March 1990|volume=16|issue=1|pages=48–50|jstor=20716971|publisher=Penn State University Press}}</ref>

For [[Isabelle of France (saint)|Isabelle of France]], the sister of King [[Louis IX of France]], and her monastery of [[Poor Clares]] at Longchamps, Bonaventure wrote the treatise ''Concerning the Perfection of Life''.<ref name=walsh/>

The ''Commentary on the'' ''Sentences'', written at the command of his superiors when he was twenty-seven,<ref name=robinson/> is Bonaventure's major work and most of his other theological and philosophical writings are in some way dependent on it. However, some of Bonaventure's later works, such as the ''[[Collationes in Hexaemeron|Lectures on the Six Days of Creation]]'', show substantial developments beyond the ''Sentences''.<ref>Ratzinger, J. (1971) ''Theology of History in St. Bonaventure'', trans. Zachary Hayes, Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=White, J.|title=St. Bonaventure and the problem of doctrinal development|date=2011|journal=American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly|volume=85|number=1|pages=177–202|doi=10.5840/acpq201185110|url=https://www.academia.edu/2150520}}</ref>