Dante’s theology and contemporary thought
Recovering transcendence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9815472 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William Franke (0000-0003-1309-9145, Vanderbilt University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 627-641 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Forum Italicum A Journal of Italian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-5858 • E-ISSN: 2168-989X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00145858211021557 |
| OpenAlex | W3166284058 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
This article outlines how Dante’s philosophy and theology turn on issues that are being debated in broader philosophical, theological, and theoretical milieus today. It emphasizes, in particular, how the new horizon opened by certain postmodern—and more specifically post-secular—turns in philosophy shifts the light falling on the interface between the concepts of transcendence and immanence. As a result, Dante’s attempt, in the twilight of the Middle Ages, to renegotiate the relations between the two shows up as acutely relevant and potentially groundbreaking for current philosophical and theological inquiry. The areas of inquiry traversed include realized eschatology as theorized by Agamben; Foucault’s archeological model of knowledge; Patristic and medieval hexameral exegesis; the tension between hermeneutics and deconstruction; political theology; the theological turn in phenomenology; secularism and humanities as crypto-theological forms of thought. All are examined as prefigured in embryo by Dante’s comprehensive, poetic approach to knowing
Epistemology · Eschatology · Eternity · Exegesis · Hermeneutics · Immanence · Islam · Messianism · Phenomenology (philosophy · Postmodernism · Secularism · Theology · Transcendence (philosophy · Transcendental number · Augustinian Studies and Theology · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |