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Document Details : Title: Beatrice as a Theologian of Deification in the Vita Beatricis Author(s): FAESEN, Rob Journal: Ons Geestelijk Erf Volume: 89 Issue: 3-4 Date: 2018 Pages: 317-336 DOI: 10.2143/OGE.89.3.3287359 Abstract : The literary and spiritual-theological strategy of the anonymous author of the Vita Beatricis has attracted the attention of a number of researchers in the past, especially since the author of the Vita integrated an adaptation of the Seven Manners of Love into his text. The Latin author employs a complex, varied strategy. In this contribution, the theological dimension in the text is discussed, in the perspective of mainstream thirteenth-century theology. The anonymous author consistently presents Beatrice as a theological author, and especially as a theologian whose life and work bring to the fore a theological theme that was highly contested in the thirteenth century, namely that of deification. |
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