The Weight of Love : Affect, Ecstasy, and Union in the Theology of Bonaventure / Robert Glenn Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Robert Glenn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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. It intervenes in two crucial developments in medieval Christian thought and practice: the renewal of interest in the corpus of Dionysius the Areopagite in thirteenth-century Paris and the proliferation of new forms of affective meditation focused on the passion of Christ in the later Middle Ages. Through the exemplary life and death of Francis of Assisi, Robert Glenn Davis examines how Bonaventure traces a mystical itinerary culminating in the meditant's full participation in Christ's crucifixion. For Bonaventure, Davis asserts, this death represents the becoming-body of the soul, the consummation and transformation of desire into the crucified body of Christ.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2016 Front List Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 100070

ISBN:

9780823272129

OCLC:

1030818003

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access