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A must read for anyone interested in a deeper grasp of the Doctor's philosophical-theology. McKenna has made a major contribution to Bonaventure studies generally, and no doubt Bonaventure's Aesthetics will serve as the industry standard in the field for some time to come.-- Franciscan Studies In this, the first full-scale treatment of Bonaventure's aesthetics since Von Balthasar, Thomas McKenna deftly engages the full range of past assessments and with care and precision, establishes a re-reading of Bonaventure's entire corpus attentive to both propositional content and historical-textual inheritance. McKenna's arguments clarify the range of Bonaventure's unique contributions to medieval aesthetics, centering the fact that for Bonaventure, the soul's delight in the beauty and goodness of the cosmos is an 'aesthetic stimulus' to its rational analysis of creation's testimony that in turn prepares it for 'supra cognitive delight' of union with the Divine.--Wendy Boring, Willamette University

In this, the first full-scale treatment of Bonaventure's aesthetics since Von Balthasar, Thomas McKenna deftly engages the full range of past assessments and with care and precision, establishes a re-reading of Bonaventure's entire corpus attentive to both propositional content and historical-textual inheritance. McKenna's arguments clarify the range of Bonaventure's unique contributions to medieval aesthetics, centering the fact that for Bonaventure, the soul's delight in the beauty and goodness of the cosmos is an 'aesthetic stimulus' to its rational analysis of creation's testimony that in turn prepares it for 'supra cognitive delight' of union with the Divine. --Wendy Boring, Willamette University

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Thomas J. McKenna is professor of history and philosophy at Concord University and an interdisciplinary scholar in history, philosophy, and the arts.

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