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Ryan Welsh Ryan Welsh 2 years ago in Paganism

Dante’s Divine Comedy has significantly shaped the Christian belief in the immortal soul. This epic poem, authored by Dante Alighieri in the 14th century, remains a pinnacle of Western literature, blending theology, history, and allegory.

The poem’s setting is Easter in 1300, though it was written over the next two decades. Dante’s exile and his disputes with the Church, particularly Pope Boniface VIII, lent the work a political dimension, acting as a warning to his contemporaries. He placed living individuals in each section, offering subjective judgments and condemnations.

Dante drew from a rich tradition of afterlife narratives, with his choice of Virgil as a guide echoing Virgil’s role in Aeneas’s descent into the underworld in the Aeneid. Dante’s journey, beginning on Good Friday, blends Christian and pagan elements, symbolizing spiritual rebirth.
Greek philosophy, primarily Aristotle’s logic, played a significant role in Dante’s work, alongside his Christian education. While Dante adhered to the Western tradition of the human soul created by God for a specific body, he denied its preexistence, unlike Plato.

Dante’s criticism of corruption in the Catholic Church and his condemnation of popes to hell raised questions about his Catholic orthodoxy. However, subsequent commentaries and illustrated manuscripts have reinforced his status as an orthodox Catholic theologian.

Despite its profound influence on Christian thought, Dante’s incorporation of the pagan concept of the immortal soul, contrary to biblical foundations, remains broadly accepted.

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