Dante's Commedia: Theology as Poetry

Contents

c o n t e n t s About the William and Katherine Devers Series vii Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations, Editions, and Translations xi Introduction: Dante, Poetry, Theology 1 Vittorio Montemaggi and Matthew Treherne 1 Polemics of Praise: Theology as Text, Narrative, and Rhetoric in Dante’s Commedia 14 Robin Kirkpatrick 2 All Smiles: Poetry and Theology in Dante’s Commedia 36 Peter S. Hawkins 3 In Unknowability as Love: The Theology of Dante’s Commedia 60 Vittorio Montemaggi 4 The Poetry and Poetics of the Creation 95 Piero Boitani 5 Liturgical Personhood: Creation, Penitence, and Praise in the Commedia 131 Matthew Treherne 6 Dante’s Commedia and the Body of Christ 161 Oliver Davies 7 Dante’s Davidic Journey: From Sinner to God’s Scribe 180 Theresa Federici 8 Caritas and Ecclesiology in Dante’s Heaven of the Sun 210 Paola Nasti 9 Neoplatonic Metaphysics and Imagination in Dante’s Commedia 245 Douglas Hedley 10 “Il punto che mi vinse”: Incarnation, Revelation, and Self-Knowledge in Dante’s Commedia 267 Christian Moevs 11 How to Do Things with Words: Poetry as Sacrament in Dante’s Commedia 286 Denys Turner A F T E RW O R D S Dante, Conversation, and Homecoming 308 John Took Dante as Inspiration for Twenty-First-Century Theology 318 David F. Ford Bibliography 329 Notes on Contributors 356 Index of Names and Subjects 358 Index of Passages from Dante’s Works 380 Index of Scriptural Passages 387 vi Contents ...