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Dante's Beatrice and the Beauty of the Christian Faith | Dr. George Corbett

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Dante's Journey Is Our Journey, Not Just of My Life

The opening line of the poem is in the middle of the journey of our life, now, next to the coming, de nostrilita, not just of my life. Like him, we also find that just waiting for us are the inestimal resources on Catholic theology, philosophy and culture. In a typological sense, these resources are mapped by the two main guides of Dante's journey, Virgil and Beatrice. So three articles in one great poem, three realms in one afterlife,. There are also then three main characters, three principal protagonists in the one epic journey.

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