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Man is created by God for an eternal glory that surpasses his nature. Even now, he is called to a graced participation in divine life that draws him above and beyond himself, conforming him to the one in whose image he is made. In his theological writings, Thomas Aquinas explored this "order of excess" that characterizes God's elevation of the rational creature, discerning in its most extreme instances—mystical transport, ecstasy, and rapture—the essential contours of the ordering of Christian life to the transcendent union of beatific vision. This is same ordering is witnessed in Aquinas's own experience, where toward the end of his life he was raised to a contemplative vision surpassing all language and further study. In Anatomy of Transcendence, Peter A. Kwasniewski examines the intersection of Aquinas's theological writings and mysticism, establishing a vocabulary and topography for the Angelic Doctor's study and experience of ecstasy and excess in God's raising of the human mind to divine things. While drawing on the full scope of the saint's corpus, the study pays particular attention to his engagement with Scripture—especially the rapture of Paul related in 2 Corinthians—thus contributing to the recovery of Aquinas not only as spiritual theologian but also as biblical theologian.
Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xiii
Chronological Table xv
Preface xix
Chapter One Modalities of Excess 1
Chapter Two Excessus Mentis in Scripture 75
Chapter Three Raptus ad Divina: The Experience
of St. Paul 107
Chapter Four Healthy Madness, Sober
Drunkenness 193
Chapter Five Intellectualism and the
Beatific Vision 213
Chapter Six Iconographic Incompleteness
and Golden Straw 229
Bibliography 265
Index of Proper Names 279
Index of Citations of St. Thomas 283
Index of Holy Scripture 291
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