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4 - Transfiguration in the Tree of Life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 November 2019

Rachel Davies
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Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
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We come now to the central, Christological chapter of this study. We have seen how the self’s failure to contemplate creation disrupts its salvific journey, severing body from soul and abandoning corporeality to an irreversible “dimness.” Now the question begs asking: If in this world corporeality must always bear the marks of abandonment, how is it possible to speak of its redemption? If redemption is possible, what can it look like? How can there be beauty in a body that must die?

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Print publication year: 2019

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  • Transfiguration in the Tree of Life
  • Rachel Davies, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
  • Book: Bonaventure, the Body, and the Aesthetics of Salvation
  • Online publication: 25 November 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108756709.005
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  • Rachel Davies, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
  • Book: Bonaventure, the Body, and the Aesthetics of Salvation
  • Online publication: 25 November 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108756709.005
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  • Transfiguration in the Tree of Life
  • Rachel Davies, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
  • Book: Bonaventure, the Body, and the Aesthetics of Salvation
  • Online publication: 25 November 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108756709.005
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