H. P. Grice and Bonaventura

Bonaventura, St (1221–74) Medieval Italian theologian and philosopher, born in Bagnorea, Tuscany, with the real name of Giovanni di Fidanza. Bonaventura was professor of theology of the University of Paris (1253–7) and became minister-general of the Franciscan order in 1257. He sought to reconcile philosophy and theology, and developed many arguments for the existence of God. He held that the culmination of human wisdom is quasi-experiential knowledge of God. His main works are: Breviloquium (1257), De Reductione Artium ad Theologiam (On the Reduction of the Arts to Theology), Itinerarium mentis in Deum (The Mind’s Journey to God, 1259), Biblia Pauperum (Poor Man’s Bible), Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard