Bonaventure — Opera Omnia

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Quaestiones disputatae de perfectione evangelica

Quaestiones

Quaestio I: De humilitate quoad actum ipsius, utrum scilicet christianae perfectionis sit se ipsum vilificare pro Christo1 question · 1 translated

Questions

On humility as to its act, namely whether it belongs to Christian perfection to make oneself vile for Christ

Quaestio II: De paupertate3 questions · 3 translated

Article 1

On poverty as to renunciation

Article 2

On poverty as to mendicancy

Article 3

Whether able-bodied poor men, and most of all regulars, are universally bound to manual labour

Quaestio III: De continentia3 questions · 3 translated

Article 1

On conjugal purity

Article 2

On widowly continence, to be kept and to be vowed

Article 3

On virginal holiness

Quaestio IV: De obedientia3 questions · 3 translated

Article 1

Whether it is consonant with natural right that man, by obeying, be subject to another

Article 2

Whether it is consonant with evangelical perfection that one bind oneself by vow to obey another

Article 3

On the obedience owed to the Supreme Pontiff

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