| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 299 pages) |
| Contents |
1. Theology and poetry -- 2. Hell: Dante and Aquinas -- 3. Inferno as anti-narrative -- 4. Purgatory and purgation -- 5. Hope, memory, and the earthly paradise -- 6. Paradise and Paideia -- 7. Paradise and the end of poetry |
| Summary |
An understanding of Dante the theologian as distinct from Dante the poet has been neglected in an appreciation of Dante's work as a whole. That is the starting-point of this vital new book. In giving theology fresh centrality, the author argues that theologians themselves should find, when they turn to Dante Alighieri, a compelling resource: whether they do so as historians of fourteenth-century Christian thought, or as interpreters of the religious issues of our own times. Expertly guiding his readers through the structure and content of the Commedia, Denys Turner reveals -- in pacy and muscular prose -- how Dante's aim for his masterpiece is to effect what it signifies. It is this quasi-sacramental character that renders it above all a theological treatise: whose meaning is intelligible only through poetry. Turner's Dante 'knows that both poetry and theology are necessary to the essential task and that each without the other is deficient.'-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Denys Alan Turner (born 5 August 1942) is a British-born American philosopher and theologian. He is Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology emeritus at Yale University having been appointed in 2005, previously having been Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge.--Wikipedia |
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Print version record |
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Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Religion
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Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia.
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Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 fast |
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Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri) fast |
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Religion
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781009168687 |
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1009168681 |
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