TY - BOOK AU - Took,J.F. ED - University College, London. TI - Conversations with Kenelm: essays on the theology of the Commedia SN - 1909188085 AV - PQ4417 .T66 2013 U1 - [E] PY - 2013/// CY - London PB - University College London Arts & Humanities Publications, Ubiquity Press KW - Dante Alighieri, KW - Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri) KW - fast KW - Theology in literature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - Poetry KW - bisacsh KW - Literature and literary studies KW - bicssc KW - Religion KW - Electronic books N1 - Resource simultaneously available in PDF, EPUB format, and Kindle format; Includes bibliographical references and index; Between philology and friendship : Dante and Aquinas revisited --; The twin peaks of Dante's theology in the Paradiso --; Dante and the modalities of grace --; Events and their inner life : an essay in actual eschatology --; Two Dantes or one? : an essay in transparency and theatricality --; Complementarity and coalescence : Dante and the sociology of authentic being --; Dante and the Protestant principle --; The courage of the Commedia N2 - In a celebratory moment of the Paradiso, Dante has Thomas go round the circle of sage spirits identifying each in turn in point of proper calling and confirming how it is that self is everywhere present to the other-than-self as a co-efficient of being in the endless and endlessly varied instantiation of that being. The image, at once perfectly Dantean and perfectly resplendent, underlies and informs these conversations of mine with Kenelm; for if in reading and rereading the cherished text, I have from time to time felt the need to enter a qualification, it is a matter here, as in the high consistory of paradise, of otherness as both contained and as authorized by sameness, as conditioned and set free by it for a life of its own. Never, in other words, is it a question in what follows of the stark alternativism of the sed contra, but instead a matter of formed friendship, of the kind of friendship which, conceived in love, makes for a sweet choreography of the spirit. (DOI: 10.5334/baa) UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv3t5rhj ER -