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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
3 - The Journey of the Body to God
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
Having established the terms and features of the soul’s journey, our task now is to locate the body within Bonaventure’s soteriology – something which, as I have already explained, Bonaventure’s thirteenth-century context does not compel him to do overtly. While this chapter draws together many well-known threads from Bonaventure’s system, a few components will require constructive development. Very clear in Bonaventure’s corpus is the body’s role as gatherer of sensory data for the soul to contemplate. Also explicit is the notion that human bodies contain a perfect proportion of corporeal elements, and the idea that, as body-soul composites, human beings stand between pure corporeality and uncreated Spirituality, and are tasked with uniting the two through contemplation.
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- Bonaventure, the Body, and the Aesthetics of Salvation , pp. 76 - 101Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019