Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-166) and index. Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2004, under the title: Delight in the cross : the beautiful, the agreeable, and the good in St. Bonaventure's spiritual treatises.
Contents:
Introduction : disputed questions on Bonaventure's aesthetics -- Bonaventure's debt to l'esthétique musicale -- Bonaventure's debt to l'esthétique de la lumière -- Bonaventure's account of the aesthetic experience -- The aesthetic dimensions of the Itinerarium mentis in Deum.
Summary:
"Bonaventure's Aesthetics: The Delight of the Soul in Its Ascent into God provides an extensive analysis of Bonaventure's concept of beauty, the first to appear since Balthasar's Herrlichkeit, and the role it plays in the Itinerarium mentis in Deum."-- Provided by publisher.
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