Inferno: between the times

Ханс Урс фон Бальтазар швейцарский кардинал

Keywords: Christology, Trinitarian dogma, justice, Eros, aesthetics, heology, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dante

Abstract

This article studies the image of God in the first canticle of “The Divine Comedy”. The author proceeds from the assertion that the poem lacks the image of the suffering Christ and claims that this absence displaces the Christological and Trinitarian ideas from the theological framework of the text. The analysis of the poetic image of Hell determines that in its description Dante was guided by the image of ancient Hades, rather than by the theological representations. The author demonstrates how the mixing of ancient and Christian worldview displaces the figure of Christ from the center of Universe and replaces it with an all-encompassing Eros.

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Author Biography

Ханс Урс фон Бальтазар, швейцарский кардинал

Ханс Урс фон Бальтазар (1905–1988) — швейцарский кардинал, католический теолог и священник. Изучал германистику и философию в университетах Цюриха, Берлина и Вены. Защитил докторскую диссертацию «История эсхатологической проблемы в современной немецкой литературе" (1928). В 1929 году стал послушником ордена иезуитов.

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