Writings Concerning the Franciscan Order

by Dominic V. Monti

Overview

After introducing the reader to Bonaventure as General Minister of the Franciscan Order, this volume presents twenty documents and helpful introductions to their importance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781576592489
Publisher:	The Franciscan Institute
Publication date:	07/15/1994
Series:	Works of saint bonaventure
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	281
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Dominic Monti, OFM, a native of Bradford, Pa., has served as provincial vicar of Holy Name Province, the largest province of Franciscan friars in the United States, since 2005. He is widely respected as a Franciscan history scholar. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy from St. Bonaventure University and a bachelor of sacred theology from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Fr. Dominic received a master’s degree in sacred theology from Union Theological Seminary, New York, and a PhD. with a concentration in the history of Christianity from the University of Chicago’s Divinity School. He was ordained in 1971. From 1979 until 2002 he was a faculty member at Christ the King Seminary and the Washington Theological Union, while maintaining his contacts with SBU by teaching in some summer sessions. In 2002 he returned to St. Bonaventure and was a member of the faculty as a professor of theology. In March of 2003, Fr. Dominic was appointed interim president of St. Bonaventure University. He edited Breviloquium: Works of St. Bonaventure (2005).