For Dante, sin is anything that separates us from God, which is to say, from Reality. When we love created things more than we love God, or in a disordered way, that is sin. One characteristic of ...

From such a standpoint, Martin Kemp’s Visions of Heaven is doubly worth celebrating ... Moreover, the analogy is often a double one. Like light, God reveals and gives life. But the transcendence of ...

This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Its garden is the poem’s otherworld—based on the ancient geocentric cosmos and Christian eschatology—and its toads are Dante’s ...

Who knew then that his vernacular poetry and his radical vision would prove ... up the challenge of sharing Dante’s final journey through the heavens to God. The film dramatizes well Dante ...