Dantes Theologie: Beatrice
Subtitle: die Liebe als Zielgrund menschlichen Strebens in der Divina Commedia des Dante Alighieri
By: Stefan Seckinger
Series: Bonner dogmatische Studien -- Band 57; Bonner dogmatische Studien -- Bd. 57
Publisher: Echter
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Würzburg
Language: ger
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9783429038090
Subjects: Characters; Beatrice Portinari; Criticism and interpretation; Love; Religious aspects; Christianity; Theology; Christianity in literature; Love in literature
Description: This study looks at Dante's Divina commedia principally from a theological perspective, rather than a philological one. The Divina commedia is a poetic depiction of the path to God. For Dante, Beatrice becomes a theological guide on his path to purification and to God. Thus Dante's experience of human love becomes the starting point and the ultimate goal for his path to God. Beatrice stands, according to this interpretation, for theology, which has its point of origin in interpersonal encounters, but which sets God alone as the goal for all love and understanding.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Doctoral)--Koblenz, Landau (Pfalz), Univ., 2014.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Die Divina Commedia als theologisches Werk; title: Grundlegung : die Verirrung im Wald oder die Ausweglosigkeit in der Lebenskrise; title: Die Sehnsucht des Menschen nach der Erfüllung seines Liebestrebens als Maßstab seines Handelns : Paradiso; title: Läuterung als Weg der Selbstwerdung : Purgatorio; title: Isolation und Stagnation : das verfehlte Leben : Inferno; title: Die Theologie der Divina Commedia; title: Schlussreflexion : personale Liebeserfahrung als Theologie.