<b>Bonaventure of Bagnoregio and the Rule of 1223: some points about the discipline of poverty</b> - doi: 10.4025/actascieduc.v34i1.15955

Abstract

Bonaventure of Bagnoregio (1221-1274) was one of the most influential thinkers of the minor friar’s Order, considered by the historians as the second founding of the movement owing to the his orthodoxy and the ‘reforms’ employed by him during his generalate. It is our objective to make a re-reading of the work Expositio super Regulam Fratrum Minorum that has the  interpretation’s question of Rule of 1223 as the conductor thread, departing from the normative poverty discussion and its expanding. When Bonaventure was a general Minister, he pledged fidelity at the religious proposal of Saint Francis and the Friar’s Rule. However, owing to his cathedratic culture, he expressed a new interpretation of the Norm, in which he emphasized the conceptual precision of all the words that transmited values or instructions to the monastic discipline at a key moment of the Friar’s history. This article intends to demonstrate that Bonaventure contributed with a lexicon interpretation of Norm and the poverty, both of them thought more than a fact which requested concrete behaviors in the convents; it turn out to be a problem of intellect, therefore, he collaborated for the growth of ecclesiastics and ecclesiology conflicts of juridical complexity in the Franciscan Order.