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... pattern , based on the Atonement , which stands as a model for all mankind . It is only at that precise moment that the poet may begin a text which , in its writing , is a movement toward salvation , and through its reading may serve ...
... pattern , based on the Atonement , which stands as a model for all mankind . It is only at that precise moment that the poet may begin a text which , in its writing , is a movement toward salvation , and through its reading may serve ...
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... pattern . Thus , com- prehension and interpretation have their unshakable touchstone in history ; for Christ , the Word , is that focus of unity which makes all the multiplicity of past events bear on one message , one meaning . It ...
... pattern . Thus , com- prehension and interpretation have their unshakable touchstone in history ; for Christ , the Word , is that focus of unity which makes all the multiplicity of past events bear on one message , one meaning . It ...
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... pattern that allows the poet's text to save men . The poet uses the canto of the diviners , who employ " unholy " means to prophesy the future , in order to demonstrate the pattern which good , holy prophecy must take . It is a ...
... pattern that allows the poet's text to save men . The poet uses the canto of the diviners , who employ " unholy " means to prophesy the future , in order to demonstrate the pattern which good , holy prophecy must take . It is a ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Misreadings in Inferno XX and Purgatorio XXI | 14 |
History to Narrative | 31 |
Copyright | |
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