Koopje Spiraling Into God Bonaventure on Grace, Hierarchy , and Holiness – Katharine Wrisley Shelby

Spiraling into God: Bonaventure on Grace, Hierarchy, and Holiness offers a systematic account of the Seraphic Doctor’s doctrine of grace across his speculative-academic, mystical, hagiographical, and pastoral texts. It does so by arguing that an account of this kind can only be provided by also attending to his theology of hierarchy, a methodology derived from Bonaventure’s claim in the Major Legend of St. Francis that Francis of Assisi was a “ vir hierarchicus ,” or hierarchical man. As the book explor…