Anne Eusterschulte, "Glorienleib und anima phantastica. Neuplatonische Voraussetzungen christlicher Konzepte pneumatischer Leiblichkeit im Blick auf die lateinische Frühscholastik", in: Verena Olejniczak Lobsien, Bernd Roling, Lutz Bergemann and Bettina Bohle (Eds.), Vom Seelengefährt zum Glorienleib. Formen aitherischer Leiblichkeit, Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2018, 59–103

Abstract

This essay discusses the interface between neo-platonic conceptualizations of Spiritus phantasticus (pneuma phantastikon) and Christian notions of a specific corporeality, yet not material corporal constitution of the body of resurrection or the so-called body of glory. Early scholasticism forms up an interconnection of different concepts of the soul. The intermediary position of the anima imaginativa is highlighted here as a quasi-corporeal, lucid, spiritual instance, in order to determine both the innerwordly mental processes of a spiritual vision and transcendent modes of a spiritual intellectuality of the individual soul. The concept of anima phantastica became an influential model of mediation concerning notions of thesoul’s vehicle and imaginative accomplishments informed by Neo-Platonism together with a Christian modelling of a transfigured body of glory.

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Verena Olejniczak Lobsien, Bernd Roling, Lutz Bergemann and Bettina Bohle (Eds.), Vom Seelengefährt zum Glorienleib. Formen aitherischer Leiblichkeit, Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2018