Foundations of Knowing God in Bonaventure's Theology

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Representing epistemological, ontological, and theistic presuppositions and principles of Bonaventure's theology, the present essay deals with his explanation of the extroversive way of knowing God and two higher ways, i. e., the knowledge of God "through His signs" and "in His signs" described in his The Mind's Road to God.
 

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