Aristotle and the Ontology of St. Bonaventure

Van Buren’s work makes an impressive contribution to Bonaventure scholarship, which could really reset the whole debate and narrative. It will challenge the historical norms for many a reader and interpreter of Bonaventure—perhaps, also of Aristotle! Indeed, this work will upend some deeply entrenched historical narratives that have proven a major obstacle for understanding Bonaventure as a philosopher.Christopher M. Cullen, Fordham University

The radical nature of her proposal is likely to give rise to new and fruitful exchanges on the philosophy of Saint Bonaventure. Laure Solignac, Speculum 99/1 (January 2024), https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/728179

Well written, coherently argued, and intellectually stimulating, van Buren’s study is an impressive piece of scholarship, one, it should be noted, that, on account of its lucid nature, is as accessible to students as it is to established academics. Regardless of whether one accepts her attempts to significantly reposition Bonaventure’s relationship to Aristotle, it is to be hoped that van Buren’s study will at least help generate a new wave of interest in the highly important, although much neglected, study of Bonaventure’s metaphysics and the place that he occupied in the complex landscape of thirteenth century attempts to understand and critically appropriate Peripatetic thought. - William Crozier, The Journal of Religion, Volume 104, Number 3, July 2024, https://doi.org/10.1086/730361