(September 16, 2019 at 7:57 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:(September 15, 2019 at 5:22 pm)Belaqua Wrote: Dante's Paradiso is a good example of the radically different type, and it's in keeping with the official theology of the Catholic church -- allowing for certain poetic differences.
Talking about Dante and Catholics, Roger Ebert was a catholic when he was a kid and he had a conversation with a priest about Dante's ideas/ visions of afterlife and the priest dismissed Dante's ideas about afterlife as nonsense. Here's from Ebert's autobiography
Quote:I was already a little smartass, and asked my seminarian: "If hell is the way they describe it, how can the punishment for impurity be worse than the punishment for anything else?" The seminarian smiled condescendingly. "The notion of levels of hell comes from Dante," he said. "He was a great poet but an amateur theologian."
It's always best to learn about the great books through second hand childhood memories of movie critics.
https://www.amazon.com/Metaphysics-Ameri...oks&sr=1-1
