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On the Reduction of the Arts to Theology

St. Bonaventure

A short treatise on the four lights that come down from the Father of lights (the mechanical arts, sense knowledge, philosophy and Scripture) and how every kind of knowledge is led back to sacred theology. The Latin is the Quaracchi text as on Wikisource; the English is Sister Emma Thérèse Healy’s 1940 translation from the facing-page edition of the Franciscan Institute, without her introduction and commentary.

Contents

Source: The complete text in 26 numbered sections; the section numbers are kept. · Only the English of the facing-page text is imported; the introduction, commentary and the Latin are left out.