Christian History Magazine—Issue 70: Dante’s Guide to Heaven and Hell
Overview
Before Dante’s 3-part Comedy, a book had never been written with such eschatological imagination or morbid illustration. Inferno explores the bowels of hell, those places only intended for Satan himself; Purgatorio follows the partially sanctified believer through seven levels of repentance for seven deadly sins; Paradiso reveals the true end of humans as unity, righteousness, and love before the throne of God Almighty. Christian History and Biography invites you to open your mind to the creativity of Dante, the author whose beginnings, struggles, and triumphs you will learn about as you read this colorful and information-rich issue.
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Top Highlights
“Dante was the first major writer in Christendom to pen lofty literature in everyday language rather than in formal Latin” (source)
“Divine Comedy is first of all an engaging story and should be read as one would read a novel, fully imagining the images and identifying with Dante the character as he gives testimony of how he was led on a complete tour of hell, purgatory, and heaven.” (source)
“Other verses cited as proof of purification after death include 2 Samuel 12, 1 Corinthians 3:11–15, and Matthew 12:32.” (source)
“Beatrice unites both eros and agape—love as desire and as self-giving” (source)
“Purgatory was defined at the Council of Trent in 1545–1563: ‘Whereas the Catholic Church, instructed by the Holy Ghost, has from the Sacred Scriptures and the ancient tradition of the Fathers taught in Councils and very recently in this Ecumenical synod that there is a purgatory, and that the souls therein are helped by the suffrages of the faithful, but principally by the acceptable Sacrifice of the Altar.” (source)
- Title: Christian History Magazine—Issue 70: Dante’s Guide to Heaven and Hell
- Author: Christian History Institute
- Series: Christian History Magazine
- Publisher: Christianity Today
- Print Publication Date: 2001
- Logos Release Date: 2009
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Church history › Middle Ages, 400-1500; Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 › Biography
- Resource ID: LLS:CH70
- Resource Type: Magazine
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-05T16:40:43Z