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- Dante and the Blessed Virgin
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Notre Dame Press
summary
Dante and the Blessed Virgin is distinguished philosopher Ralph McInerny’s eloquent reading of one of western literature’s most famous works by a Catholic writer. The book provides Catholic readers new to Dante’s The Divine Comedy (or Commedia) with a concise companion volume. McInerny argues that the Blessed Virgin Mary is the key to Dante. She is behind the scenes at the very beginning of the Commedia, and she is found at the end in the magnificent closing cantos of the Paradiso. McInerny also discusses Dante’s Vita Nuova, where Mary is present as the object of the young Beatrice’s devotion. McInerny draws from a diverse group of writers throughout this book, including Plato, Aristotle, St. Bernard, St. Bonaventure, St. Thomas Aquinas, and George Santayana, among others. It is St. Thomas, however, to whom McInerny most often turns, and this book also provides an accessible introduction to Thomistic moral philosophy focusing on the appetites, the ordering of goods, the distinction between the natural and the supernatural orders, the classification of capital vices and virtues, and the nature of the theological virtues. This engagingly written book will serve as a source of inspiration and devotion for anyone approaching Dante’s work for the first time as well as those who value the work of Ralph McInerny.
Table of Contents
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- ONE A New Life Begins
- pp. 1-12
- TWO In the Midst of My Days
- pp. 13-34
- THREE The Seven Storey Mountain
- pp. 35-100
- FOUR Queen of Heaven
- pp. 101-142
Additional Information
ISBN
9780268086794
Related ISBN(s)
9780268035174
MARC Record
OCLC
694144482
Pages
192
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No