How Long to Read Knowledge, Love, and Ecstasy in the Theology of Thomas Gallus

How Long Does it Take to Read Knowledge, Love, and Ecstasy in the Theology of Thomas Gallus?

It takes the average reader 4 hours to read Knowledge, Love, and Ecstasy in the Theology of Thomas Gallus by Boyd Taylor Coolman

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Knowledge, Love, and Ecstasy in the Theology of Thomas Gallus provides the first full study of Thomas Gallus (d. 1246) in English and represents a significant advance in his distinctive theology. Boyd Taylor Coolman argues that Gallus distinguishes, but never separates and intimately relates two international modalities in human consciousness: the intellective and the affective, both of which are forms of cognition. Coolman shows that Gallus conceives these two cognitive modalities as co-existing in an interdependent manner, and that this reciprocity is given a particular character by Gallus anthropological appropriation of the Dionysian concept of hierarchy. Because Gallus conceives of the soul as hierarchized on the model of the angelic hierarchy, the intellect-affect relationship is fundamentally governed by the dynamism of a Dionysian hierarchy, which has two simultaneous trajectories: ascending and descending. Two crucial features are noteworthy in this regard: in ascending, firstly, the lower is subsumed by the higher; in descending, secondly, the higher communicates with the lower, according to the nature of the lower. When Gallus posits a higher, affective cognitio above an intellective cognitio at the highest point in the ascent, accordingly, this higher affective form both builds upon and sublimates the lower intellective form. At the same time, this affective cognitio descends back down into the soul, both enriching its properly intellective capacity and also renewing the ascending movement in love. For Gallus, then, in the hierarchized soul a dynamic mutuality between intellect and affect emerges, which he construes as a spiralling motion, by which the soul unceasingly stretches beyond itself, ecstatically, in knowing and loving God.

How long is Knowledge, Love, and Ecstasy in the Theology of Thomas Gallus?

Knowledge, Love, and Ecstasy in the Theology of Thomas Gallus by Boyd Taylor Coolman is 240 pages long, and a total of 60,000 words.

This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Knowledge, Love, and Ecstasy in the Theology of Thomas Gallus Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 27 minutes to read Knowledge, Love, and Ecstasy in the Theology of Thomas Gallus aloud.

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Knowledge, Love, and Ecstasy in the Theology of Thomas Gallus is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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