Soteriologický kristocentrizmus v Hexamerone svätého Bonaventúru
Soteriological Christocentrism in the Hexaëmeron of St. Bonaventure

Summary/Abstract: How to explain salvation as possibility offered to everyone and to the whole man? This question represents one of the most important subjects to which Bonaventure was turning his attention during whole of his life. Climax of this process is reached in his Hexaëmeron, the very last of his works containing twenty three conferences held in Paris, which, unfortunately could not be finished because of death of its author in 1274. Franciscan doctor presents in Hexaëmeron the figure of Triplex Verbum by which he brings to completion his soteriological cristocentrism: through the Verbum increatum everything was created, through the Verbum incarnatum everything was redeemed and through the Verbum inspiratum everything was revealed. These three moments of the Verbum expose objective dimension of the creative and redemptive speaking of God through the first and second cristological figures, and at the same time a cognitive dimension enabled by the third figure which illuminates man in his cognitive and sapiential return to the truth of God. Bonaventure was thus able to protect – against every form of antiintelectualistic spiritualism and also against rationalism closed in front of the revelation – and represent by his soteriological cristocentrism the very essential subject of his thinking: the unity of Christian knowledge in which mind, heart, reason and love are united in an intellectual and affective return to the mystery of God, who supports and includes everything.

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