New Book Explores the Life, Service, and Teachings of St. Bonaventure
In honor of the recent feast day of St. Bonaventure, St. Polycarp Publishing House is pleased to announce the upcoming publication of "The Seraphic Doctor: St. Bonaventure" by Francesco Chiappelli, coming September 21st.
SUWANEE, Ga., July 17, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Chiappelli's book explores the life, ecclesiastical service, and teachings of St. Bonaventure, "Seraphic Father" of the Church (1221 - 1274 AD).
It will be released on September 21, 2018, with pre-orders available now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and direct from St. Polycarp Publishing House. Hardcover (ISBN: 978-1-947707-43-6), paperback (ISBN: 978-1-947707-30-6), and e-book (978-1-947707-31-3) editions are available.
Chiappelli has organized his book around the notes compiled by Friar Peregrino, St. Bonaventure's contemporary and personal secretary, who had structured his own text in four parts: Formation, Ecclesiastical Service, Ministerial Service and Formational Service. This order is maintained in the present book, presenting a short disquisition on St. Bonaventure inspired by Friar Peregrino's work, in four chapters, in addition to an epilogue commentary.
For additional information visit: http://www.theseraphicdoctor.com
About the Author
A secular Franciscan within the Roman Catholic Church, much of Francesco Chiappelli's works reflect Franciscan spirituality. He is also a scientist and emeritus professor at UCLA, having worked in the Center for Health Sciences and published over 200 peer- reviewed scientific papers, in addition to chapters and books on topics as wide-ranging as biostatistics to molecular virology. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the few overseas Fellows of the Royal Society of Medicine and a Fulbright alumnus. He values science as the pursuit of our abilities to think and to reason, but believes that this ability is always secondary to our grace of faith; a person can be a good and sound scientist while remaining true and committed to putting Christ at the center of it all. He views our role as humble instruments to the greater glory of God through, in and with Christ - as majoram Dei gloriam - and thus, while having been a scientist all of his life, he has always tried to follow Christ's teaching in Franciscan humility.
SOURCE St. Polycarp Publishing House
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