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Divine Comedy Southern Hemisphere
417 wordsIn his lecture, Professor Mark Dantmore says that Purgatorio is "almost science fiction" to people of the time it was written. I find it very interesting that a book in the Divine Comedy, something the Catholics take as truth, might be described this way. Of course Purgatorio is a book largely dealing with Christian themes, but the actual setup was meticulously constructed to agree with scientific knowledge of the time. In fact, it was demonstrated in the lecture that the descriptions of the pos...
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Forgive Sins Martin Luther
1,097 wordsMartin Luther had a very spiritual renewal after he was in a horrid accident. He then decided to go to a monastery to pay his respects to God for letting him live. And his inner torment was not eased by the fact that his father disapproved of his Martin Luther did this despite his fathers pleads for Luther not to go. When Luther went of to the monastery his father felt his son had dishonored him. Martin Luther was very active in trying to cleanse his soul of any sins he had committed. He would s...
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Bread And Wine Catholic Church
2,080 words... independance for the Papacy so that the unhindered administration of the universal Church would be assured. " (Baldwin, p 76) Beneath the Papacy are the Cardinals, who assist the Pope in making rules for the Catholic Church, and even vote-in the new Pope at the Sistine Chapel. The Bishop is the leader of the Church in his diocese, under the influence of the Archbishops. The success of the Papal Monarchy depended on the relationship between the Cardinals and Bishops - their positions require ...
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Seven Deadly Sins Heaven And Hell
2,544 wordsDantes Divine Comedy "The Divine Comedy" is an epic poem brimming with information and eloquent literary devices. (The word "comedy" is used here in its classical sense - to denote a story which begins in suspense and ends well. ) The lengthy work combines Dante's vast knowledge of classical Latin writers (Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Seneca... ) and Greek philosophers (Plato and Aristotle) with his readings from the religious and theological classics of Catholicism (Augustine, Thomas Aquinas... ). Som...
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Seven Deadly Sins Divine Comedy
1,442 wordsDante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, Purgatory Dantes The Divine Comedy section of Purgatory is a depiction of Dante and his struggle to reach paradise. He is a character as well as a narrator. The purgatory section deals with the seven deadly sins and Dantes task of cleansing himself on his journey to heaven. He confronts many different people on his journey to self-righteousness, which help and guide him to his destiny. Accompanied by Virgil or reason as he is depicted, his quest is a hard jou...
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Dante Inferno Constant Motion
1,962 wordsDante s Inferno takes mankind on a frightening journey through the depths of hell. This mentally and physically exhausting journey proves to be an invaluable lesson in restoration of the Church, which was in a corrupt state. The physical ends of the journey are to strengthen the pilgrim s body for the upcoming and rigorous ascent on mount purgatory. The intellectual ends of the journey, however, are far more beneficial to the human soul. Man must first understand the foundations of sin before he...
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Holy Roman Emperor Journey Through Hell
2,123 wordsDantes poem relating his heavenly ordained journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise enjoyed immediate success: more than 600 surviving manuscripts of the Divine Comedy produced during the 14 th century attest to the works popularity. Consequently, Dantes vernacular classic was among the first books to be printed when the new technology of moveable type was introduced into Italy from Germany during the 1460 s and 1470 s. Publishers and printers repeatedly turned to Dante for his proven market...
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Circle Of Hell Divine Grace
2,983 wordswas written from 1308 to 1321 and is the seemingly simple story of a man, generally assumed to be Dante himself, who is miraculously enabled to undertake an ultra-mundane journey, which leads him to visit the souls in Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. He has two guides: Virgil, who leads him through the Inferno and Purgatorio; and Beatrice, who introduces him to Paradiso. Through these fictional encounters taking place from Good Friday evening in 1300 through Easter Sunday and slightly beyond, Dante...
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Seven Deadly Sins Relationship With God
1,406 wordsA significant idea contained within Dantes The Divine Comedy is the Augustinian concept of ordered and disordered love. Each realm of the afterlife symbolizes the type of love the inhabitants exercised while they were living on earth. For example, the Inferno represents disordered love, since the souls in Hell exhibited little love for mankind and little acknowledgement of God. Because the kind of love Hell symbolizes is the worst type that anyone could possess, it is located nearest to the cent...
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Son Of God Mortal Sin
1,465 wordsCan the descriptions of God, claimed by the Bible, be proven? In Descartes? Meditations, Descartes logically proved the existence of an infinite and truthful being. The Holy Bible describes God, our creator. I plan to compare the logically proven infinite being (God) and the Biblical God and see if their traits mirror each other. If they do then it would prove, if not give strong evidence, that they are one in the same. First I will restate Descartes? proof of an infinite and truthful being. P 1...
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Dante And Virgil Violent Acts
1,636 wordsWhy One Sin is Worse than Another Most Christians these days see every sin as equally bad. In other words, no one sin is worse or should draw worse punishment than another. In Dantes The Inferno, however, this is not the case. In The Inferno, the deeper one delves into Hell, the worse the sin that has been committed. The punishments that the souls incur are representative of the sins they committed in their corporeal state of being. Sins that affect others are considered worse then those that on...
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Greco Roman Catholic Doctrine
1,115 words&# 9; Dante Alighieri reveals his theology, beliefs, and ideals in his work Divine Comedy. Specifically, in Purgatorio, Dante expresses his view of the importance of love, a view that is not completely homogenous with Catholic doctrine. That view is that through divine grace, all Christians can acquire eternal happiness and immortal love from God regardless of how wicked they lived life, as long as they are repentant. Another aspect of Purgatorio exists in Dantes immersion in the ancient, heroic...
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Lake Of Fire Love Of God
1,730 wordsPurgatory and the Bible Some Christians reject the Church's affirmation of purgatory because the word is not explicitly mentioned in the Bible. For that matter, neither are the words Trinity or Incarnation. But for all three the teaching is there, as recognized for nearly 2, 000 years in the Sacred Tradition of the Church, the very Tradition which Paul places alongside Scripture as the rule of faith (2 Thes. 2: 15) and praises adherence to (1 Cor. 11: 2). Jesus commands us to listen to the Churc...
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