Bonaventure, the body, and the aesthetics of salvation /
"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, an...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2020.
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| Summary: | "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, showing 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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| Item Description: | Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Centre for Catholic Studies at Durham University, 2017). |
| Physical Description: | xii, 187 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108485371 1108485375 9781108706919 1108706916 |