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- Bonaventure, the Body, and the Aesthetics of Salvation
- Bonaventure, the Body, and the Aesthetics of Salvation
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Bonaventure’s Aesthetic Vision
- 2 Beauty and the Soul’s Ascent in the Collations on the Six Days
- 3 The Journey of the Body to God
- 4 Transfiguration in the Tree of Life
- 5 Corporeality Reclaimed in The Major Life of Francis
- 6 Paschal Bodies
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 November 2019
- Bonaventure, the Body, and the Aesthetics of Salvation
- Bonaventure, the Body, and the Aesthetics of Salvation
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Bonaventure’s Aesthetic Vision
- 2 Beauty and the Soul’s Ascent in the Collations on the Six Days
- 3 The Journey of the Body to God
- 4 Transfiguration in the Tree of Life
- 5 Corporeality Reclaimed in The Major Life of Francis
- 6 Paschal Bodies
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In his Philosophy of St. Bonaventure, Etienne Gilson proposed that Bonaventure thought the spiritual reality that Francis felt. My own offering – the book at hand – attempts to synthesize and apply Franciscan thinking and feeling to a very specific set of human hopes and anxieties. Resting at its heart is the Neoplatonic metaphysics of emanation and return structuring Bonaventure’s soteriological vision. While the Christological and Trinitarian framework of Bonaventure’s metaphysical system has been explored by many, few have considered it in light of particular aspects of the human condition, asking what it might look like for this or that worldly reality to be caught up, through participation with Christ, in Bonaventure’s “return.”
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019