Predestination in Dante's "Commedia" in Light of Augustine
If Virgil's damnation motivates Dante in the heaven of Jupiter to interrogate the inner workings of divine justice, the ultimate theological point in contention is the nature of predestination. This article offers Augustine as an unconsidered textual anchor and hermeneutic lens for illuminating...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Literature and theology
Year: 2021, Volume: 35, Issue: 2, Pages: 178-197 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KAF Church history 1300-1500; late Middle Ages NBL Doctrine of Predestination |
| Further subjects: | B
Augustine
B Justice B Christian B frui Distinction / uti B Dante B Predestination |
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| Summary: | If Virgil's damnation motivates Dante in the heaven of Jupiter to interrogate the inner workings of divine justice, the ultimate theological point in contention is the nature of predestination. This article offers Augustine as an unconsidered textual anchor and hermeneutic lens for illuminating predestination in the Commedia: a doctrine concerning not so much humanity's attempt at impossible comprehension of God's salvific will, as an invitation to creative participation in it, realized in and through ongoing, historical practices of caritas conforming the self to the body of Christ. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/fraa033 |