Reading Dante’s Purgatory While the World Hangs in the Balance [Dante’s] medieval theology isn’t much consolation to a modern nonbeliever, yet his art and its truths feel more necessary than ever: that greater love for others is an antidote to the world’s barbarities, that evil may be understood as a sin against love, and that a soul can’t hope to dispel its anguish without first plumbing it.
Web Excursions 2021-09-13
Web Excursions 2021-09-13
Web Excursions 2021-09-13
Reading Dante’s Purgatory While the World Hangs in the Balance [Dante’s] medieval theology isn’t much consolation to a modern nonbeliever, yet his art and its truths feel more necessary than ever: that greater love for others is an antidote to the world’s barbarities, that evil may be understood as a sin against love, and that a soul can’t hope to dispel its anguish without first plumbing it.