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The Weight of Love Robert Glenn Davis

The Weight of Love By Robert Glenn Davis

The Weight of Love by Robert Glenn Davis


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Summary

A study of the role of affect in the mystical theology and Passion meditations of the thirteenth-century Franciscan theologian Bonaventure of Bagnoregio

The Weight of Love Summary

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 Paris and the proliferation of new forms of affective meditation focused on the passion of Christ in the later Middle Ages. Through the exemplary life and death of Francis of Assisi, Robert Glenn Davis examines how Bonaventure traces a mystical itinerary culminating in the meditants full participation in Christs crucifixion. For Bonaventure, Davis asserts, this death represents the becoming-body of the soul, the consummation and transformation of desire into the crucified body of Christ.
In conversation with the contemporary historiography of emotions and critical theories of affect, The Weight of Love contributes to scholarship on medieval devotional literature by urging and offering a more sustained engagement with the theological and philosophical elaborations of affectus. It also contributes to debates around the affective turn in the humanities by placing it within this important historical context, challenging modern categories of affect and emotion.

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"The Weight of Love is an extremely erudite and well-researched book that illustrates the complexity of what scholars call 'affective' devotion in the high Middle Ages by means of detailed analyses of works of one of its most celebrated writers, the thirteenth-century Franciscan theologian Giovanni di Fidanza, otherwise known as St. Bonaventure. This innovative book responds to contemporary scholarship on mysticism, affective devotion, and medieval theology and natural philosophy." -- -Patricia Dailey Columbia University

About Robert Glenn Davis

Robert Glenn Davis is Assistant Professor of Theology at Fordham University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: The Seraphic Doctrine: Love and Knowledge in the Dionysian Hierarchy. Chapter 2: Affect, Cognition, and the Natural Motion of the Will Chapter 3: Elemental Motion and the Force of UnionELEL.. Chapter 4: Hierarchy and Excess in the Itinerarium mentis in Deum Chapter 5: The Exemplary Bodies of the Legenda Maior Conclusion Bibliography

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GOR013588864
9780823274536
0823274535
The Weight of Love: Affect, Ecstasy, and Union in the Theology of Bonaventure by Robert Glenn Davis
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Fordham University Press
2016-12-01
208
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