Dante the Theologian

Denys Turner

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Jahr: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781009203395
• Thema: Theology & Religion
• Thema: Theology

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.'

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Reviews
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Theology and Poetry
• Part I Hell
• Part II Purgatory
• Part III Paradise
• Select Bibliography
• Index