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Bonaventure, the Body, and the Aesthetics of Salvation

by Melbourne) Rachel Davies (australian Catholic University

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 14.6 x 22 x 1.7 cm

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For theologians and scholars interested in aesthetics

Explains how the body can signify spiritual renewal

You will gain a deeper understanding of body-soul unity

This insightful book explores how Bonaventure's thought connects aesthetics and the renewal of the self through the body.

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In this work of historical theology, Rachel Davies considers the relationship between aesthetics and anthropology in Bonaventure's thought, and shows how bodily diminishment can become a sign and source of the self's renewal. Drawing from texts like the Collations on the Six Days, and the Major Life of Francis, Davies reconfigures traditional accounts of the fallen body's rebellion against the soul and emphasizes instead the soul's original abandonment of the body. Her interpretation draws attention to the crucial but undervalued role that Bonaventure assigns to the body in the self's coming-to-be, and shows how contemplation involves the soul's tender recovery of the body it once rejected. Though contemplation makes body-soul integrity possible again, Davies argues that the body never fully recovers from its primordial alienation. Instead, Bonaventure suggests that individuals can experience brokenness and healing at the same time, and that suffering bodies can become paschal spaces, graced and open to beatific wholeness.
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  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    December 2019

  • Weight

    318g

  • Dimensions

    14.6 x 22 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9781108485371

  • ISBN-10

    1108485375

  • Eden Code

    5074431

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