SAINT BOAVENTURA AND HIS TEACHINGS, OF THE CENTURY XIII, ON THE KNOWLEDGE FOR THE DIVINE EXPLANATION

Abstract

In this article, we will analyse some teachings proposed by Saint Boaventura de Bagnoregio in one of the conferences that it carried out in the University of Paris, in the end of the century XIII. According to him, it was necessary to know the form of creation of the universe in order that the proximity acted in accordance with the divine teachings, specially in day by day of the persons of his time in view of some of the questions made a list to the development of the commerce, like the demand of new knowledges, with other cultures. Expressing  some education changes that were taking place for a reorganization of social behaviours, in the analysed conference, the Franciscan master was setting out that the knowledge of the world was demanding the r eflection and the capacity to recognize that all the things were created by God, including the alterations of actions and behaviours, in other words, that the world was explained by the divine teachings. For Boaventura, the knowledge was ruled in God, in the sense of which, one was existing reason, intelligence, possibility to understand the world, it was because the Creator gave to the men the property of the intellect and, through this, the conditions  of reflection. This author called by scholars, as Bougerol4, of místico1, was establishing a series of relations between the Holy Ghost and the land and was explaining each one of them through the God's words. In this way, it was looking to try and to argue that the man, as well as completely in the Universe, had been a servant for God. At the same time in which it was proposing the way of the intellect to understand the divine teachings, it was affirming that the intelligence should be instructed by the Sacred Scripture.