The Thomistic Institute The Myth of Dante's Thomism? Reading Aquinas and Dante with the Dominicans | Prof. George Corbett
Feb 10, 2023
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Aquinas As Dante’s Recognized Master
- Dante repeatedly signals Aquinas as a primary intellectual authority in the Commedia and prose works.
- Early commentators abundantly quoted Aquinas, creating a long tradition of reading Dante through Aquinas.
20th-Century Rejection Of ‘Thomas Dante’
- 20th-century scholarship dismantled the dominant clerical reading that Dante was thoroughly Thomistic.
- Scholars like Bruno Nardi, Etienne Gilson, and Kenon Foster argued significant divergences between Dante and Aquinas.
Kenon Foster’s Unusual Formation
- Kenon Foster trained as a Dominican but diverged into modern and medieval languages at Cambridge.
- Foster became a leading post-war authority on Dante's theology while rejecting some traditional Thomist readings.