Title: dante and the secularization of religion through literature
Abstract: The Divine Comedy's imagining the worlds of the afterlife through means offered by epic, lyric, and dramatic literature fundamentally transforms Christian revelation. At the deepest level, this transformation consists not so much in new forms and products of representation as in a relating to the Unrepresentable. Dante grounds his theological outlook, especially in his culminating work, the Paradiso, in the experience of the Unsayable. This is what opens the whole sphere of secular experience to him as metaphors for his expression of the Transcendent. For understanding God as the Unsayable frees Dante to interpret the divine by inventing a prophetic language that reflects and is inflected by his own human and subjective exigencies and limits. A properly objective language and doctrine about God are not theologically possible, but this human language, in its mysteriously unaccountable yet worldly incarnate being, emerges as itself a revelation of divinity.
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-12-02
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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