The Life of Christ
Overview
The Life of Christ consists of 100 meditations on the life and work of Jesus Christ. These short meditations, averaging one to three pages in length, poetically illuminate the Scriptures, and “endeavor throughout to fix the gaze of the soul on the Divine Object.”
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This product is part of The Medieval Preaching and Spirituality Collection (34 vols.).
- Offers 100 meditations on Christ’s life by St. Bonaventure, a Doctor of the Church
- Illuminates the Scriptures
- Provides insight into the Middle Ages
Top Highlights
“Hail! highly favoured, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women.’” (Page 11)
“she was commended because she was full of grace, because the Lord was with her, and as blessed above all women;” (Page 11)
“ for certain, that grace never descends into a soul, unless through prayer and mortification” (Page 7)
“Imagine him thus addressed:—‘Go to our most beloved daughter, Mary, who is espoused to Joseph, and above all, creatures most dear to Us; and tell her that My Son ‘greatly desires her beauty’ and hath chosen her to be His mother. And desire her to receive Him joyfully, because through her instrumentality I have decreed that the salvation of the whole human race should be effected, and I will remember their offence against Me no more.’” (Pages 9–10)
“the Life of Jesus teaches us what we ought to do, insomuch that neither enemies nor vices can assault or deceive us” (Page xxix)
It was written, and has been translated, to be a guide through the high and sacred ways of the spiritual life; the temper of prayer and faithful contemplation is astir in every chapter; and the true canon of its excellence can only be applied by those who have used it according to the intention of its author.
—Church Quarterly Review
- Title: The Life of Christ
- Author: St. Bonaventure
- Translator: W.H. Hutchings
- Publisher: Rivingtons
- Publication Date: 1881
- Pages: 337
- Christian Group: Catholic
- Resource Type: Topical
- Topic: Medieval Church
Bonaventure (1221–1274) born John of Fidanza, was an Italian medieval scholastic theologian and philosopher. The seventh Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, he was also a Cardinal Bishop of Albano. He was canonized on 14 April 1482 by Pope Sixtus IV and declared a Doctor of the Church in the year 1588 by Pope Sixtus V. He is known as the “Seraphic Doctor”. Many writings believed in the Middle Ages to be his are now collected under the name Pseudo-Bonaventura. He is honored as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
About the Translator
W.H. Hutchings was sub-warden of the House of Mercy in Clewer, and the author and translator of numerous works, including The Confessions of S. Augustine, The Life of Prayer: A Series of Lectures, and The Mystery of Temptation: A Course of Lectures.
Reviews
7 ratings
J.C. Russo
2/24/2023
While this is a very edifying work, it has been known for well over a century that it was not written by St. Bonaventure. For this reason, it was excluded from the critical edition of his Opera Omnia at that time. The author has now been identified as Giovanni de' Cauli, a Franciscan living in San Gimignano who wrote it about the year 1350. He refers to the distance of his friary from the gate in chapter 77 to explain how far away Mount Calvary was. This identification is in the title of the critical edition, "Iohannis de Caulibus Meditaciones uite Christi, olim S. Bonauenturo attributae" (CCM 153). I give it five stars for the content, which has edified Christians for centuries, minus two for the false attribution, which will make unsuspecting students and scholars cite it as St. Bonaventure.
Dr. Gordon Arthur
2/26/2016
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