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Divine Providence : the Bible, Virgil, Orosius, Augustine, and Dante.

Holding divine intervention responsible for political and military success and failure has a long history in western thought. This book explores the idea of providential history as an organizing principle for understanding the divine purpose for humans in texts that may be literary, historical, phil...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schildgen, Brenda Deen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Primary Texts -- Translations -- Introduction -- Authority -- History and fiction -- Chapter 1: Destined Lands and Chosen Fathers: Virgil, Livy, and the Bible -- Hebrew Bible -- The Roman tradition -- Rome against Jerusalem in the first century of the Common Era -- Chapter 2: Orosius Defends the Roman Empire -- Fourth-century Roman Empire: Imperium and evangelium -- Orosius -- Orosius' universal geography -- Orosius' universal history -- Chapter 3: Augustine's Theology of History -- Bible against Virgil's Aeneid -- Augustine's geography -- Augustine's history as theology -- Chapter 4: Dante's Monarchia with and against Augustine -- Context of Dante's political treatise -- The argument -- Pitting Augustine against Orosius and the Roman literary legacy -- False and true allegories -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Dante's Commedia and the Ascent to Incarnational History -- Canto 6 Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso: Political theme, Florence, Italy, and empire -- Canto 7 Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso -- Conclusion: The Hand of God -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- Ancient, Patristic, and Medieval Primary Texts -- Modern Texts -- Index. 
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