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Aesthetics
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Beauty
Bonaventure
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Franciscan Studies
God
Historical Theology
History of Aesthetics
History of Philosophy
Language_English
Medieval
Medieval Philosophy
Medieval Theology
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soul
Theological Aesthetics
Theology
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- ISBN 9781498597654
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 162 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 10 Dec 2020
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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.
Thomas J. McKenna is professor of history and philosophy at Concord University in Athens, West Virginia.
