Examine and Compare Dante, Boethius, and Christianity
Dante Alighieri, author of the Divine Comedy, of which the Inferno is the first of three books, called Boethius, an early Christian, "The blessed soul who exposes the deceptive world to anyone who gives ear to him." But Boethius was not a non-conflicted Christian, and it seems, neither was Dante, who wrote the Divine Comedy at least partly as a sort of historical-political payback. (For example, in Canto VI of the Inferno, Ciacco mentions Pope Boniface VIII, the reigning Pope of his time, "whose intervention in the affairs of the city was, in Dante's view, a main cause of its miseries" (Sinclair, p. 95). St. John, on the other hand, was a non-conflicted Christian, who believed wholly in Jesus as the son of God, and entertained no other ideas. Although he likely wrote, and therefore thought in Greek, his devotion to Jesus, as one of Jesus' disciples, was absolute. According to "John: Introduction": The Gospel according to John is quite different in character from the three synoptic gospels. It is highly literary and symbolic. It does not follow the same order or reproduce the same stories as the synoptic gospels. To a much greater degree, it is the product of a developed theological reflection
In ancient days before the time of my child, Plato, have we not as well as nowadays survive, did not his master, Socrates, win his victory of an unjust death, with me I asked her,' Wherefore have you, mistress of all virtues, come down from heaven Dante Alighieri medieval masterpiece The Divine Comedy is similarly varied in its expressions of interest in and admiration of Greek ideals and serious devotion to a Christian belief system. First, Dante clearly admires pre-Christian figures, as does Boethius. Moreover, Dante even chooses the pre-Christian, never baptized Roman poet Virgil to be his spiritual guide through Hell and Purgatory, rather than a Christian guide (who could guide him through Paradise as well, while Virgil, having not been baptized, must stop before entering Paradise). That valley, dark and deep and filled with mist,
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