by Beth Butler | Feb 4, 2022
Janelle Aijian is an Assistant Professor in the Torrey Honors College at Biola University. She studies the philosophy of religion, skepticism and spirituality, and the vice of acedia. Questions for Reflection Beatrice’s words reach Dante like the point of a sword. How...
by Beth Butler | Feb 2, 2022
Gregory Wolfe is the Editor of Slant Books and a Visiting Fellow at the Templeton Honors College at Eastern University. Questions for Reflection When Beatrice appears, all chant Benedictus qui venis (“Blessed is he who comes…”) But the Latin takes the masculine rather...
by Beth Butler | Jan 31, 2022
Bernadette Waterman Ward is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Dallas and Director of the English Masters program. Her research considers Christian theology in literature, and especially the theology of John Duns Scotus, and she teaches courses on...
by Beth Butler | Jan 28, 2022
Jane Kim is an Assistant Professor of Classics in the Torrey Honors College at Biola University. She is an expert on the influence of Dante’s poetic theology on British Romantic conceptions of the poet and poetry. Questions for Reflection The first word of this...
by Beth Butler | Jan 26, 2022
JP Heyne is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Dallas. He is an expert in Mediterranean history and the history of Jerusalem. Questions for Reflection The lustful penitent sing “blessed are the pure in heart…” How does that beatitude conclude, and...
