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7. Paradisal Hermeneutics: Reading the Volume of the Universe

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Dante's Hermeneutics of Salvation

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Chapters in this book

Frontmatter i
Contents vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Situating the Project 3
DIVISION ONE
1. Language, Mediation, and Salvation in Dante’s Commedia 15
2. Meaning 33
3. Historicality and Truth 66
4. The Recapitulatory Nature of Finite Understanding 80
5. The Hermeneutics of Conversion 98
DIVISION TWO
6. Dialectical Reading and the Dialectic of Salvation 135
7. Paradisal Hermeneutics: Reading the Volume of the Universe 172
Notes 245
Bibliography 301
Index 317

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Chapters in this book

Frontmatter i
Contents vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Situating the Project 3
DIVISION ONE
1. Language, Mediation, and Salvation in Dante’s Commedia 15
2. Meaning 33
3. Historicality and Truth 66
4. The Recapitulatory Nature of Finite Understanding 80
5. The Hermeneutics of Conversion 98
DIVISION TWO
6. Dialectical Reading and the Dialectic of Salvation 135
7. Paradisal Hermeneutics: Reading the Volume of the Universe 172
Notes 245
Bibliography 301
Index 317

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