The Weight of Love : Affect, Ecstasy, and Union in the Theology of Bonaventure /

The Weight of Love : Affect, Ecstasy, and Union in the Theology of Bonaventure /

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Supplementing theological interpretation with historical, literary, and philosophical perspectives, 'The Weight of Love' analyzes the nature and role of affectivity in medieval Christian devotion through an original interpretation of the writings of the Franciscan theologian Bonaventure. I...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davis, Robert Glenn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Bonaventure, > Saint, Cardinal, > approximately 1217-1274.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Ethics.
RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ethics.
Amour > Aspect religieux > Christianisme > Histoire des doctrines > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Love > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : weighing affect in medieval Christian devotion
  • The Seraphic Doctrine : love and knowledge in the Dionysian hierarchy
  • Affect, cognition, and the natural motion of the will
  • Elemental motion and the force of union
  • Hierarchy and excess in the Itinerarium Mentis in Deum
  • The exemplary bodies of the Legenda Maior
  • Conclusion : a corpus, in sum.

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