The Myth of Dante's Thomism? Reading Aquinas and Dante with the Dominicans | Prof. George Corbett
The Thomistic Institute
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The Comége and Dante's Theology
Kenon Foster claimed that there were two Dante's, as in his seminal collection of essays with that title of 1977. Interpreting the Comége according to the allegory of the poets as was prevalent until the early 20th century, the dogmatic theology hidden under the fiction of Dante's poem is not necessarily opposed then to Aquinas' teaching at all. As I said, Dante was caught between being a humanist, a lover of poetry, natural ethics, politics, philosophy, and a Christian,. This leads us to reconsider finally the coherence of Kenon Foster's claim that there weretwo Dante's.
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