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Dante's Journey to the Triune God in the Divine Comedy

Publication |
2021

Abstract

Dante's Divine Comedy represents the poet's personal journey to the Triune God. However, Dante's journey is not primarily intellectual and meditative, but it has the character of a personal pilgrimage, which the poet does not undertake alone.

Instead, he is accompanied by specific characters, who are mainly Virgil, Beatrice, and St. Bernard.

The article focuses on this central motif of Dante's work, namely the connection between the Christian concept of God as Trinity and the mystery of man. It is an analysis of Dante's poetic trinitarian theology, which is linked to anthropology since the knowledge of the Trinitarian divine life is made possible through the encounter with human beings, especially the person of Beatrice.