
The Myth of Dante's Thomism? Reading Aquinas and Dante with the Dominicans | Prof. George Corbett
The Thomistic Institute
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Aquinas and Dante - A Brief History
The question is whether Foster considered that Dante was not only simply because he adopted pagan culture or had a pagan understanding of things. That's not what I was trying to say, but I can forgive you for suggesting it. So in the first talk I gave this morning, I said that the beginning of Dante's poem, Surprise builds on surprise,. Because the first region we enter is this strange region of the neutrals, including neutral angels, and then we enter into limbo. Now in stanta Catholic doctrine of this time limbo had two occupants: Jewish patriarchs and believers; unbaptized infants. And that part of limbo becomes empty, the haring of hell, because Christ goes down and
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