The Significance of Trinitarian Connotations in Bonaventure’s Epistemology for a Trinitarian Ontology

Bonaventure’s epistemology is partly based on his Trinitarian theology. This paper investigates the connotations in this and their broader significance. Like divine Father, any object of human understanding liberally generating a likeness itself: species. Apprehending form through species an essential feature knowledge for Bonaventure. More fundamentally, soul itself structured according to Augustinian Triad memoria, intellectus voluntas, transcendentals being correspond soul’s structure: unum, verum bonum. Both originate ultimately from life or actuality, which self-relation truth love: The Father generates Word both together spirate nexus between Son: Holy Spirit. notion actuality as it imaged can help deepen Aquinas’ metaphysical created esse all acts: An enriched necessarily involves, just Hugo St. Victor’s love, personal self-communication reception, context speech ‘suffering’ makes sense, does not involve mutability. Understanding love exemplary creation might open up vistas mutual fertilization Thomistic metaphysics theology, so further development ontology without confusing distinction Philosophy Theology.