<p>The interesting part of this work by Bonaventure is that for us it is a return to mysticism for a Church which has been embattled by the sophistication of the rational to a point that the only mystic experience we are permitted to tolerate these days is that of sci-fi films paranormal documentaries or popular film culture which insists we believe in something &quot;out there&quot; without ever daring to suggest that God may be &quot;out there.&quot; Enter Bonaventure from the 13th century who suggests to us 800 years later that knowing God is not some philosophic jeu des enfants but something more akin to love.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>