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3 - The Journey of the Body to God

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 November 2019

Rachel Davies
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Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
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Having established the terms and features of the soul’s journey, our task now is to locate the body within Bonaventure’s soteriology – something which, as I have already explained, Bonaventure’s thirteenth-century context does not compel him to do overtly. While this chapter draws together many well-known threads from Bonaventure’s system, a few components will require constructive development. Very clear in Bonaventure’s corpus is the body’s role as gatherer of sensory data for the soul to contemplate. Also explicit is the notion that human bodies contain a perfect proportion of corporeal elements, and the idea that, as body-soul composites, human beings stand between pure corporeality and uncreated Spirituality, and are tasked with uniting the two through contemplation.

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  • The Journey of the Body to God
  • Rachel Davies, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
  • Book: Bonaventure, the Body, and the Aesthetics of Salvation
  • Online publication: 25 November 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108756709.004
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  • Rachel Davies, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
  • Book: Bonaventure, the Body, and the Aesthetics of Salvation
  • Online publication: 25 November 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108756709.004
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  • The Journey of the Body to God
  • Rachel Davies, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
  • Book: Bonaventure, the Body, and the Aesthetics of Salvation
  • Online publication: 25 November 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108756709.004
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