Franciscan theologian and philosopher who developed an Augustinian mystical philosophy of the soul's journey to God, opposing the wholesale Aristotelianization of theology undertaken by Aquinas.
Itinerarium mentis in Deum: the soul ascends to God through six stages — the external world, inner sensation, inner self, the image of God in the soul, the attributes of God, and finally the Trinity itself. Insisted on the primacy of Augustine and divine illumination over Aristotelian naturalism.
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