Pobreza, obediência e castidade na ótica de São Boaventura.

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to understand some aspects about the conception of Poverty, Obedience and Chastity that influenced the Franciscan ideal and the whole thought of St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio who was an important religious and philosopher of the XIII Century. After joining the Order of Friars Minor, he must prepare a series of defenses against the secular master of the University of Paris Guilherme do Santo-Amor. The evangelical poverty of the mendicants, specifically of the Franciscans, is seen as a model and example of those who want to follow St. Francis of Assisi who mirrored himself in Jesus Christ. Using some passages from the Gospel, the Seraphic Doctor points to evangelical poverty as one of the means to reach the desired perfection that all those who call themselves Christians aspire. The first and great defense of the Franciscans, elaborated by him, was the work De Perfectione Evangelica, in which the three evangelical vows: poverty, obedience and chastity are the reflection of the followers of Christ, who managed to live in a poor, obedient and chaste manner.