A sad case of poor scholarship
Mr. Paul Rout has proffered a highly jounalistic and prosaic account of the life and teaching of Bonaventure and his spiritual father Francis. The book is poorly constructed and offers very little grounded information. Rout is a memenber of the Franciscans yet fails to comprehend the basic tenets and teaching of the men who shaped the order to which he belongs. Perhaps he should have joined then Jesuits who, as anyone will tell you, understand the principles of scholarship and spirituality needed to tackle the profound insights of these two thinkers. From the shoddy presentation, however, it is clear that Rout could not even finish the elementary stages of a Jesuit formation.