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

209 Pages·2016·9.22 MB·English

The Weight of Love
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The Weight of Love
Affect, Ecstasy, and Union
in the Theology of Bonaventure
Robert Glenn Davis
fordham university press
New York 2017
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Davis, Robert Glenn, author.
Title: The weight of love : affect, ecstasy, and union in the
theology of Bonaventure / Robert Glenn Davis.
Description: New York : Fordham University Press, [2017] |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifi ers: LCCN 2016013982 | ISBN 9780823272129
(cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780823274536 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately
1217–1274. | Love—Religious aspects—Christianity—
History of doctrines—Middle Ages, 600–1500.
Classifi cation: LCC B765.B74 D38 2017 | DDC 241/.4—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016013982
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contents
Introduction: Weighing Affect in Medieval Christian Devotion 1
1. The Seraphic Doctrine: Love and Knowledge
in the Dionysian Hierarchy 29
2. Affect, Cognition, and the Natural Motion of the Will 45
3. Elemental Motion and the Force of Union 65
4. Hierarchy and Excess in the Itinerarium mentis in Deum 88
5. The Exemplary Bodies of the Legenda Maior 107
Conclusion: A Corpus, in Sum 127
Acknowledgments 137
Notes 139
Bibliography 175
Index 189
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