What is the Spiration of Bonaventure and what doctrine did it have to do with?
The Doctrine of Spiration relates to the Trinity and is held to be a development of the Augustinian doctrines which concentrated relationships on the nature of God at an intradivine level. The term comes from the second ecumenical council of Lyons who produced the following definition (see Denzinger “Enchiridion”, (1908), n. 460). “We confess that the Holy Ghost proceeds eternally from The Father and the Son, not as from two principles, but as from one principle, not by two spirations, but by one single spiration.” The teaching was again laid down by the Council of Florence (ibid. n. 691) and by Eugene IV in his Bull “Cantate Domino” (ibid (n. 703 sq.) (see also Cath. Encyc. vol. VII, p. 412). In this sense we have the “Filioque” concept from The Council of Toledo in 589. This view was not accepted by the eastern Catholic or Orthodox system. Bonaventure was Cardinal Bishop of Albano and Minister General of the Friars Minor (b. 1221 d. 1274). He was charged by Gregory X to prepare the q
