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Form and content to make them smaller and larger works, such as in De reductione Artium ad theologiam (Reduction of the Arts to Theology), Itinerarium mentis in Deum (The Mind's Road to God), and Lignum vitae (The Tree of Life), and appear as the final sum of his theological thinking. In Collationes is about the vision of God in the Creation.
Bonaventure OFM (/ ˈ b ɒ n ə v ɛ n tʃ ər, ... (Lignum vitae), and The Triple Way (De Triplici via), the latter three written for the spiritual direction of his ...
Although Aelred of Rievaulx (d. 1167) had introduced the concept of immersing and projecting oneself into a Biblical scene in his De institutione inclusarum, and St. Bonaventure (d. 1274) had borrowed heavily from that work in his Lignum Vitae, [6] Ludolph's massive work (which quoted Aelred extensively but credited his work to Anselm) helped ...
Meditationes uitae Christi (Giovanni de Cauli?), ca. 1478. The Meditations on the Life of Christ (Latin: Meditationes Vitae Christi or Meditationes De Vita Christi; Italian Meditazione della vita di Cristo) is a fourteenth-century devotional work, later translated into Middle English by Nicholas Love as The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ.
Bonaventure's Opusculum 3, Lignum vitae (a part from which is the reading for the Divine Office on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart) refers to the heart as the fountain from which God's love poured into one's life: Take thought now, redeemed man, and consider how great and worthy is he who hangs on the cross for you.
Eckbert's writings on the humanity of Christ influenced Bonaventure's Lignum vitae. [6] On the death of Eizabeth in 1164, he wrote the mournful treatise De obitu dominae Elisabeth. Among his works are: De Laude Crucis (Patrologia Latina, CXCV) Soliloquium seu Meditationes - 18 prayers or meditations praising the love of Jesus Christ.
In Judaism and Christianity, the tree of life (Hebrew: עֵץ הַחַיִּים, romanized: ‘ēṣ haḥayyīm; Latin: Lignum vitae) [1] is first described in chapter 2, verse 9 of the Book of Genesis as being "in the midst of the Garden of Eden" with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (עֵץ הַדַּעַת טוֹב וָרָע; Lignum scientiae boni et mali).
Lignum vitae is hard and durable, and is also the densest wood traded (average dried density: ~79 lb/ft 3 or ~1,260 kg/m 3); [4] it will easily sink in water. On the Janka scale of hardness, which measures hardness of woods, lignum vitae ranks highest of the trade woods, with a Janka hardness of 4,390 lbf (compared with Olneya at 3,260 lbf, [5] African blackwood at 2,940 lbf, hickory at 1,820 ...