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281 Alfonsi, Luigi, 245 allegory, 30, 43, 57, 70–71, 74, 98–109, 120, 124, 132, 141–42, 155–56, 263–64; of the church, 30, 71, 98, 101–2, 109, 142, 155; on the creation of the church in Conf. 13, 101–9, 141–42, 155; on God's fifth act, 103; on God's first act, 103; on God's ninth act, 109; on God's second act, 103 Alter, Robert, 58 Anselm: the author, 47–51, 62, 159–64, 173, 182–87, 194–95, 204–10; the narrator, 47–48, 62, 159–76, 182–83, 186, 190–95, 198, 202–9. See Proslogion Aquinas, St. Thomas, 6, 15, 18, 23, 230 Ascent: Christian–Platonic, ix–xiv, 2–3, 9, 20, 25–26, 29–31, 42, 44, 53, 65–66, 69, 73–74, 77, 84, 90–98, 110–11, 119, 131–32, 139–44, 151–52, 155, 158–60, 164, 173, 195–201, 210; meditative, vi, xi–xii, 1–5, 8–22, 25–26, 29–32, 41–42, 46, 50–65, 71, 75, 196, 209–10, 266; narrator 's, 48, 98, 102, 132, 142, 144–47, 151, 155, 162–64, 170, 174–76, 180, 185, 188, 191, 195–96, 199, 205; pilgrim 's, 11, 22; Platonic, 226, 246, 266 Asher, Lyell, 113 Augustine; the author, 52–55, 62, 66, 79–158; the bishop, 45–46, 52, 78; the narrator, 52, 62, 66, 70, 79–158, 211; the young, 25, 45–46–, 52–54, 62, 68, 74–79, 88, 94, 100, 104–40, 146, 156, 211; and conversion, 139–55; and friendship, 119–38; and memory, 143–52; and time, 148–51. See meditative philosophy, Augustine 's Author, vii–xii, 21, 29. See Anselm, the author; Augustine, the author; Boethius, the author; Dante, the author Baltes, M. Gott, 265 Bamford, Christopher, 233 Barnes, Jonathan, 15 Barnhart, Bruno, 37 Bianchi, Enzo, 33 Bible, 18, 23, 33, 43, 55–58, 61, 67, 94, 101–2, 121, 130–31, 146–56, 173, 196–97 Boethius: the author, x, 45, 211–13, 222–27, 238, 246–48, 250, 257, 262–65; the prisoner, x, 44–45, 61, 211–13, 217, 220–22, 247, 257. See Consolation of Philosophy Bonaventure, xii–xiii, 95–97 Bouissou, G., 79 Bourke, Vernon J., 116, 143 Boyde, Patrick, 13, 38 Breyfogle, Todd, 71 Brodie, Thomas L., 58 Brown, Peter, 59, 79, 152 Bubacz, Bruce, 269 Burke, Kenneth, 7, 69 Callahan, J. F., 148, 269 Carruthers, Mary, 50, 148, 152 Cayre, F., 70 Chadwick, Henry, 11, 15, 54, 134, 211, 213, 236 Chamberlain, David S., 249 chiastic structure or pattern, 36–42, 61, 75–76, 93, 111, 119, 130, 136–38, I N D E X chiastic structure or pattern (cont.) 174, 261–66 Christ, 10, 19, 22–25, 38, 41, 56, 67–68, 71, 77, 102, 106, 120, 125, 135, 142, 147, 173, 197–98, 202, 209 church, 22, 30–33, 43, 68, 70–77, 93–102, 106–11, 127–29, 132–36, 141–42, 146–51, 154–55, 197. See allegory , of the church; allegory, on the creation of the church in Conf. 13 Cipriani, Nello, O.S.A., 116 circle, 16–19, 38–43, 61, 149–50, 173, 214, 217, 226–36, 262–64 Clark, Mary T., 70 Clement of Alexandria, 71 Colish, Marcia, 3, 14, 15 Commedia, vii, xi–xii, 2–4, 10, 16, 20–26, 30–31, 34–35, 44–45, 61–62, 97; love in, 16, 30–31. See Dante Confessions, 3–4, 10–12, 25–27, 43, 51–55, 61–158 Consolation of Philosophy, vii–viii, xi–xii, 31, 36, 41, 44–45, 59–61, 135, 211–14, 220–27, 231–36, 240, 243–66. See Boethius Cooper, John C., 70 Courcelle, Piere, 100, 212, 213, 252 Crabbe, Anna, 211 Crosson, Frederick, J., 75 Crouse, R. D., 70 Culpepper, R. Alan, 58 Curley, Thomas F., 214, 215, 222–23, 245 Curtius, Ernst Robert, 35 Dante, x, xi, xiv, 2–7, 10–41, 44–46, 51, 61–64, 78, 97, 128, 229–31; the author , 45; the pilgrim, x, 2, 5–6, 10, 17, 22, 44–46, 51, 61, 62, 230, 231; the poet, 44–46. See Commedia; Inferno; Paradiso; Purgatorio divided line, 252–56, 261–64 Dixon, Sandra Lee, 112 Duclow, Donald F., 243 Durling, Robert M., xiv, 35, 103, 257 Dwyer, Richard A., 212 Eckhardt, Caroline D., 34, 35, 223, 249 Evans, G. R., 206, 209 exitus–reditus, viii, 1, 5, 18–19, 38, 69, 94 Ferrari, Leo C., 25, 55...

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