The Weight of Love: Affect, Ecstasy, and Union in the Theology of Bonaventure

by Robert Glenn Davis

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823274535
• ISBN13: 9780823274536
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"