"As the Heavens Are Higher Than the Earth": Dante's Apocalyptic Vision ( Purgatorio 29-33) Part 3: PARADISO 11. Returning to Humanity's First Home: Epic and Lyric in the Garden of Eden ( Purgatorio 25-28) 10. ![]() In Search of Deep Cleansing: The Middle Canti ( Purgatorio 10-24) 9. The People outside the Gate: Freedom, Responsibility, and Vulnerability ( Purgatorio 1-9) 8. Waiting for God: An Introduction to Purgatorio 7. Icy Hearts and Frozen Souls: The Lowest Portion of Hell ( Inferno 27-34) Part 2: PURGATORIO 6. White-Collar Criminals and Sins against Words ( Inferno 18-26) 5. The Graveyard of the Heretics and the Wasteland of the Violent ( Inferno 10-17) 4. The Fear of Hell and the Fear of God ( Inferno 3-9) 3. ![]() Zooming In and Zooming Out: How to Read Inferno ( Inferno 1-2) 2. Contents Introduction: Dante as Poet, Prophet, and Exile Part 1: INFERNO 1. The book contains a general introduction to Dante and a specific introduction to each canticle ( Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso), making it especially well suited for classroom and homeschool use. Jason Baxter, an expert on Dante, covers all the basic themes of the Divine Comedy, such as sin, redemption, virtue, and vice. This accessible introduction to Dante, which also serves as a primer to the Divine Comedy, helps readers better appreciate and understand Dante's spiritual masterpiece. Like a Gothic cathedral, the beauty of this great poem can be appreciated at first glance, but only with a guide can its complexity and layers of meaning be fully comprehended. It captures centuries of thought on sin, love, community, moral living, God's work in history, and God's ineffable beauty. It is renowned not only for its ability to make truths known but also for its power to make them loved. Dante's Divine Comedy is widely considered to be one of the most significant works of literature ever written.
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