title: St. Bonaventure's on the Reduction of the Arts to Theology (English and Latin Edition)
author: St. Bonaventure
description: Text: English, Latin (translation)<br> Original Language: Latin
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   **The Mind's Road to God**
  
   **By**
  
   **Saint Bonaventure**
  
   **Copyright 2010 Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL)**
  
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  **THE MIND'S ROAD TO GOD**
  
  by
  
   **Saint Bonaventura: 1221-1274**
  
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   **PREFACE**
  
  This translation of St. Bonaventura's "Itinerarium Mentis ad Deum" is
  addressed to undergraduate students of the history of philosophy who may wish
  to read a work of a great medieval Franciscan thinker. I have used the Latin
  text of the Franciscan Fathers contained in "Tria Opuscula" (Quaracchi), fifth
  edition, 1938. Biblical quotations are taken from the Douay Bible, since that
  is a translation of the Vulgate, which, it goes without saying, St.
  Bonaventura used. In order to make the translation more readable, I have taken
  the liberty of breaking up a few of the longer sentences and once in a while
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