Ascent to Love: A Guide to Dante's Divine Comedy

Leithart, Peter J.

ISBN 10: 1885767161 / ISBN 13: 9781885767165

Verlag: Canon Press, 2001

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As one of the supreme Christian epic poems, Dante's Divine Comedy provides not only far more personality and emotional depth than the pagan epics, it also opens up all the issues on which Western history turns truth, beauty, goodness, sin, sanctification, and triumph. For all that, C.S. Lewis loved the Comedy for its seemingly effortless poetry.

In this guide Peter Leithart uses a biblical angle to open up the Comedy for students, high school and up. He begins his discussion by examining the meaning and place of the courtly love tradition and then introduces us to the varied levels of meaning throughout the work. In the heart of the guide, Leithart walks us carefully through the craft and symbolism of each progressive stage Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Each section contains helpful study questions.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Peter Leithart is an ordained minister of the Pacific Northwest Presbytery, Presbyterian Church in America, and senior fellow of theology and literature at New St. Andrews College, Moscow, Idaho.

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Titel: Ascent to Love: A Guide to Dante's Divine ...
Verlag: Canon Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Good