Abstract

Did Bonaventure influence Albert the Great's Trinitarian theology? While the question may be counterintuitive, Albertus Magnus both predated and post-dated his younger and better-known contemporaries, Bonaventure of Bagnoregio and Thomas Aquinas. Albert composed his unfinished Summa theologiae de mirabili scientia Dei in the twilight of his life, mostly in the years following the deaths of Bonaventure and Thomas in 1274.1 While Albert is often simplistically viewed as a proto-Thomist, recent scholarship has begun to notice how Albert responds to and is influenced by the Thomistic Corpus.2 Albert foils the moniker of a proto-Thomist for another reason: On consequential questions where Bonaventure and Thomas... Read More.