4. The Recapitulatory Nature of Finite Understanding

Chapters in this book

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