Detalles del libro
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.'
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Autor/es Turner, Denys
- ISBN13 9781009168700
- ISBN10 1009168703
- Páginas 310
- Año de Edición 2005
- Idioma Inglés
Dante the Theologian
- Autor/a Denys Turner
- Editorial CAMBRIDGE U.P
- ISBN 9781009168700