The created world as a creator’s vestigium in St. Bonaventure’s aesthetics

Salvador-González, José María (author)

The conspicuous Franciscan thinker Saint Bonaventure of Bagnoregio develops his personal Aestheticsin his book Itinerarium mentis in Deum (1259). This consists essentially in an ascent of man to God through three successive phases, each of them divided into two levels. This article seeks to analyze the first of those three phases in which our author structures his aesthetic system, a phase that we could call Bonaventurian Immanent Aesthetics. In this immanent phase, the human being can reach the knowledge of God, if he considers the material beings of the created world as vestiges that visibly reveal the invisible presence of God who created them. To achieve such a discovery, the human being must consider through apprehension, delectation, and judgment the physical qualities of material creatures, to perceive them as traces or vestiges of the Creator.

• Language: English
• Keywords: aesthetics, created world, senses, material beings, vestige, analogy, Creator God
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: TEOF - Theological Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2023
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: Str. 33-47
• Numbering: Letn. 83, [št.] 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-164140
• UDC: 111.852sv.Bonaventura
• ISSN on article: 0006-5722
• DOI: 10.34291/BV2023/01/Salvador
• COBISS.SI-ID: 159582211
• Publication date in RUL: 17.10.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Bogoslovni vestnik
• Shortened title: Bogosl. vestn.
• Publisher: Bogoslovna akademija, Bogoslovna akademija, Teološka fakulteta v Ljubljani, Teološka fakulteta Univerze v Ljubljani, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 0006-5722
• COBISS.SI-ID: 8745472

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Ustvarjeni svet kot Stvarnikov vestigium v estetiki sv. Bonaventure

Abstract

Prodorni frančiškanski mislec sv. Bonaventura iz Bagnoregia razvija svojo osebno estetiko v delu Itinerarium mentis in Deum (1259). Gre pravzaprav za dviganje človeka k Bogu skozi tri zaporedne faze, vsaka od njih pa je razdeljena na dve ravni. Članek poskuša analizirati prvo od treh faz, pri čemer naš avtor strukturira svoj estetski sistem: fazo, ki jo lahko imenujemo Bonaventurova imanentna estetika. V tej imanentni fazi človek spoznanje Boga lahko doseže, če materialna bitja ustvarjenega sveta razume kot znamenja, ki vidno razodevajo nevidno navzočnost Boga, ki jih je ustvaril. Da bi to odkril, mora človek na fizične lastnosti materialnih bitij gledati prek spoznanja, uživanja in presoje – tako jih bo dojel kot Stvarnikove sledove ali znamenja.

• Keywords: estetika, ustvarjeni svet, čuti, materialna bitja, znamenje, analogija, Bog kot Stvarnik