Translation of: Geschichtstheologie des heiligen Bonaventura.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-257) and indexes.

An attempt to find the structure of the Bonaventurian theology of history on the Collationes in Hexaemeron -- General remarks concerning the Collationes in Hexaemeron -- A provisional delimitation of the relation between Scripture and history according to the Hexaemeron -- The historical schemata of the Hexaemeron -- The historical schemata of the Hexaemeron -- The central form of the Bonaventurian theology of history the 2x7 time schema -- The historical prophecy of Bonaventure -- The content of Bonaventure's hope for salvation -- The graces of the final age: pax and revelatio -- Basic considerations concerning revelatiogj -- The theological place of Bonaventure's hope of revelation in the four-fold concept of wisdom in the Hexaemeron -- The historical character of Scripture and its revelation --The sapientia omniformis: creation and revelation -- The sapientia nulliformis: mysticism and revelation -- The historical setting of Bonaventure's theology of history -- The pre-Bonaventurian development of the Medieval theology of history -- The new eschatological consciousness of Joachim of Fiore -- The historical consciousness of Bonaventure -- The double development of Bonaventure's historical thought in the period of magisterium -- The historical consciousness of the Hexaemeron and that of Thomas Aquinas -- Aristotelianism and the theology of history -- The modern controversy concerning Bonaventure's anti-Aristotelianism -- The historical-theological significance of Bonaventure's anti-Aristotelianism