Victorine theologian who translated and interpreted the Dionysian Corpus for the Latin West, developing an affective mysticism that emphasized love rather than intellect as the highest faculty for union with God.
Argued that the anagogical ascent to God is achieved by the synderesis (the highest part of the soul's affective power) through love, not intellect — providing the affective mystical tradition with its key concept.
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