101. Spiritual and Sensuous
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Boyd Taylor Coolman
- Abstract
Drawing on Scripture, as well as early and medieval sources of various types (e.g. bishops, monks, and scholars), this chapter speculates on the possible place of spiritual perception in the experience of beatitude. More precisely, it asks what possible role there might be for the existence and activity in the next life of the human sensorium, that is, the capacity for perception that in this life most typically occurs through the five physical senses. It argues that there is a robust and venerable Christian tradition of speculation, as well as Christological and anthropological bases, that warrants the claim that beatitude may well be an experience that is, paradoxically, both spiritual and sensuous.
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- 2022
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