The Portable Dante by Dante Alighieri
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Of course, glorious and wise. Well worth it. But I was struck — and perhaps unfairly — with the Christlessness of his Heaven.
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Theology That Bites Back
So Dante was a Jehovah’s Witness, with pictures of paradise sans Jesus. Who knew!
Not so – Christ is at the center of it all. (And all-encompassing. The geometry gets complicated.) But the visio Christi is the great culmination, the final element of beatitude in Paradise. To critique Paradiso for being Christless is a bit like critiquing Beethoven’s 9th for not being entirely the Ode to Joy.