Lo Spirito agisce nella storia secondo la sua identità personale di Dono e Amore

Una lettura del Commento alle Sentenze di Bonaventura

Abstract

This article aims at studying the theology of the Holy Spirit considering the two personal names of Gift and Love, taking as a starting point the Sentences of Peter Lombard to subsequently arrive at the proposal of Bonaventure. Lombard reveals himself as a faithful disciple of Augustine, from whom however he takes his distance, proposing the recognition in every created love of the effective presence of the Trinity. Bonaventure on the other hand, in the light of a more complex and organic theology and in full respect of  the axiom on the indivisible action of God ad extra, gives importance to the exemplary causality, indicating it, in some aspects, as belonging to the same person of the Spirit. These conclusions however do not appear in line with other traits of his theological thought, wherein the exemplary cause of the whole of creation is the Word.