Bonaventure, the Body, and the Aesthetics of Salvation

by Rachel Davies

In this work of historical theology, Rachel Davies considers the relationship between aesthetics and anthropology in Bonaventure's thought, and shows how bodily diminishment can become a sign and source of the self's renewal. Drawing from texts like the Collations on the Six Days, and the Major Life of Francis, Davies reconfigures traditional accounts of the fallen body's rebellion against the soul and emphasizes instead the soul's original abandonment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108485375
• ISBN13: 9781108485371
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.7"