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Author: Robert Glenn Davis
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Imprint: Fordham University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.408kg
ISBN: 9780823272129
ISBN 10: 0823272125
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 01 December 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The Weight of Love is an extremely erudite and wellGCEresearched 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. GCoPatricia Dailey, Columbia University
...a remarkable tapestry, tightly woven by Robert Glenn Davis into a substantive contribution to Bonaventure studies and to our understanding of the affective Dionysian tradition. * Modern Theology * Robert Glenn Davis' The Weight of Love offers an important reassessment of the role of affective desire in the mystical theology of the thirteenth-century Franciscan theologian Bonaventure of Bagnoregio... There is a great deal to commend in Glenn Davis' fascinating study and he argues convincingly for the central place of Dionysian affective mysticism in Bonaventure's theology. * The Expository Times * 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 *
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
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 *
Author Information
Robert Glenn Davis is Assistant Professor of Theology at Fordham University.
