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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