Bonaventure's Aesthetics (eBook)

The Delight of the Soul in Its Ascent into God

Thomas J. McKenna (Autor)

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2020
198 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9766-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The authors of the standard approach to Bonaventure's aesthetics established the broad themes that continue to inform the current interpretation of his philosophy, theology, and mysticism of beauty: his definition of beauty and its status as a transcendental of being, his description of the aesthetic experience, and the role of that experience in the soul's ascent into God. Nevertheless, they also introduced a series of pointed questions that the current literature has not adequately resolved. In Bonaventure's Aesthetics: The Delight of the Soul in Its Ascent into God, Thomas J. McKenna provides a comprehensive analysis of Bonaventure's aesthetics, the first to appear since Balthasar's Herrlichkeit, and argues for a resolution to these questions in the context of his principal aesthetic text, the Itinerarium mentis in Deum.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.12.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 6 Illustrations including: - 6 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: Aesthetics • Beauty • bonaventure • Franciscan Studies • God • historical theology • history of aesthetics • History of Philosophy • Medieval • Medieval Philosophy • Medieval theology • Soul • Theological Aesthetics • Theology
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-9766-1 / 1498597661
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-9766-1 / 9781498597661