RT Article
T1 "Our God is a God of surprises": The Mystery of God in Dante's Writings
JF Christianity & literature
VO 68
IS 4
SP 580
OP 604
A1 Marciano, Lisa
LA English
PB Johns Hopkins University Press
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/167213305X
AB This article asserts Pope Francis's Easter 2018 comments on God's surprising ways would have been appreciated by Dante Alighieri, who portrays God's unpredictableness in Il Convivio, De Monarchia, and the "Letter to Can Grande." It then reads Dante's Commedia in light of these treatises, analyzing instances of the unexpected in the epic-from punished popes to redeemed reprobates to almost absent theological authorities. The article concludes that Dante's assumptions about God are rooted principally in Catholic theology concerning the mystery of God, although they likely owe a debt to the poet's sense of the literary tradition and political situation as well.
K1 Commedia
K1 Dante
K1 God
K1 Mystery
K1 Theology
DO 10.1177/0148333119845718