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Reading Dante's Commedia as Theology - Divinity Realized in Human Encounter (Hardcover)
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Reading Dante's Commedia as Theology - Divinity Realized in Human Encounter (Hardcover)
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Dante's Commedia compels readers to confront the mystery of their
existence, to seek understanding of their relationship to the
living conscious reality from which all possible experience arises.
By pursuing these lines of inquiry, says Vittorio Montemaggi,
readers can reach an ultimate reality that Dante calls love.
Montemaggi offers a detailed theological reading of the Commedia,
examining the theme of human interaction, both as it is represented
in the poem-the narrator Dante's interaction with other
characters-and by the relationship between author and reader. In
doing so he locates a Dante we may not be used to imagining, a man
aware both of the spiritual power of his work, and of his profound,
essential vulnerability and moral failing. Montemaggi shows that,
for this Dante, truth emerges only through human limitation and
failure, rather than in spite of it. Applying this interpretive
framework to a reflection on the methodology of scholarship itself,
Montemaggi offers his readers a vision of what the academy could
be-not individual scholars in competition with others, but a
community that seeks to foster the understanding that can arise
through interaction, vulnerability, and love. His vision
constitutes a benign challenge to some of the ethos and practices
of the modern academy, while simultaneously reflecting on the
dynamics of one of the most inspiring and influential texts ever
written about the relationship between humanity and divinity.
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