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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
6 - Paschal Bodies
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
Throughout this book, I have used Bonaventure’s aesthetics to trace how the self journeys to God – a contemplative experience by which body and soul are drawn, through a graced openness to creation’s Source, into wholeness of being. Understanding Bonaventure’s broad theological and anthropological vision can help us think about the body’s role in the self’s journey where Bonaventure himself, in explicitly soteriological texts like the Collations on the Six Days and The Soul’s Journey, privileges the soul.
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- Bonaventure, the Body, and the Aesthetics of Salvation , pp. 168 - 174Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019