Bernard of Bologna

Bernard of Bologna, also know as Bernardine, was a Friar Minor Capuchin and Scotist theologian and author.

Biography

He was born at Bologna, 17 December, 1701 as Flovitano Toselli.

In 1717 he entered the Capuchin Order and some years later filled successively the office of professor of moral and dogmatic theology and several times he ld positions of responsibility.

He died on 19 February, 1770.

Works

Perhaps the best known of Bernard of Bologna's writings in the "Bibliotheca Scriptorum O. Min. S. Francisci Cap.", a work which resembles Wadding's well-known "Scriptores Ord. Min." It was published at Venice in 1747, and an appendix appeared at Rome in 1852.

Besides this work, Bernard wrote an elementary treatise on philosophy according to Duns Scotus, entitled "Institutio Philosophica praemittenda theologiae" (Venice, 1766).

Further he left a treatise on dogmatic theology, "Institutio Theologica" (Venice, 1746).

He is also the author of a "Phrasarium S. Scripturae" composed for the use of preachers and authors.

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