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The Lightness of Being: Illumination in the Philosophy and Theology of Saint Bonaventure
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The Lightness of Being: Illumination in the Philosophy and Theology of Saint Bonaventure
Yazar:
Giltner, T. Alexander, author.
ISBN:
9780438127555
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1 electronic resource (343 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A.
Advisors: John A. Hellmann Committee members: Jay M. Hammond; David B. Hart.
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The claim of this dissertation is that illumination is an all-embracing concept in the philosophy and theology of Saint Bonaventure, and that the last century and a half of modern interpretation has obscured the basic centrality of light and illumination in the Seraphic Doctor's thought. By situating illumination as a crucial locus within the framework of Bonaventure's thought on God, being, and the rational soul, the all-encompassing reach of his illuminationism may be recaptured.
I advance this claim by making two arguments. First, the development of modern post-Enlightenment epistemology and its influence on Catholic intellectual thought in the nineteenth and twentieth century, by divorcing of knowing from the metaphysics of Being in the creation of the discipline of epistemology, set forth a program of interpretation that has obscured our ability to adequately interpret Bonaventure's doctrine of illumination. Second, only by recovering Bonaventure's radical notion that knowing and Being are essentially connected in the concept of illumination can we fully understand and appreciate the unicity, diversity, scope, and beauty of Bonaventure's philosophical and theological understanding and account of knowing and Being in the divine life and for the rational soul.
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School code: 0193
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