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Dante The Theologian
Category: Books > Theology > Theology Books
Author/Artist: DENYS TURNER
ISBN / ID: 9781009168700
Publisher: Cambridge Uni Press
Binding: HARDBACK
Price: AU$56.95
  
Description: 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.'
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