WOF 319: Dante’s Catholic Imagination
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
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🗓️ 17 January 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Today we share Lesson 1 from Bishop Barron's latest Word on Fire Institute course titled "Dante's Catholic Imagination." Listen as Bishop Barron leads us on a journey through the life of Dante and his major work, The Divine Comedy, the great literary treasure dedicated to the dynamics of the Christian spiritual life.
In this first lesson from the course, Bishop Barron introduces us to Dante Alighieri, the thirteenth-century Italian poet who authored the epic poem. This seminal work captures the Catholic imagination of the dynamic afterlife in three distinct sections: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vaat, the senior publishing director. |
| 0:11.0 | Today we share with you lesson one of Bishop Barron's latest Word on Fire Institute course titled |
| 0:17.0 | Dante's Catholic Imagination. Of course, we just celebrated the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante. |
| 0:25.0 | So listen, as Bishop Barron leads us on a journey through the life of Dante and his major work |
| 0:30.1 | the Divine Comedy, which is that great literary treasure dedicated to the dynamics of the Christian |
| 0:36.1 | spiritual life. And the first lesson of this course, Bishop Barron introduces us to Dante Aligieri, |
| 0:42.8 | the 13th century Italian poet who authored this epic poem. This seminal work captures the Catholic |
| 0:50.0 | imagination of the afterlife and three distinct sections corresponding of course to the three books |
| 0:56.0 | of the Divine Comedy, namely the Inferno, the Pergatorio and the Paradiso. Whether you've read these |
| 1:01.6 | books or not, this course will give you a great introduction, especially to the Catholic themes |
| 1:06.7 | throughout this important work. So sit back and enjoy lesson one from Bishop Barron's newest |
| 1:12.9 | Word on Fire Institute course titled Dante's Catholic Imagination and Joy. |
| 1:23.3 | I'll tell you a little bit about my own sort of personal relationship with the |
| 1:27.6 | writings of Dante. It all began, I know exactly when. It was the summer of 1990. So, God |
| 1:33.8 | helped me 30 years ago. I was in Europe, I was getting my doctoral work done. And the summer of |
| 1:40.2 | 1990, I went from Paris to a Freiberg in Briscoe because I was doing an intensive German class |
| 1:47.7 | from July through the end of September. And it was intensive. It was I think nine to three |
| 1:54.4 | every day, just non-stop German reading, writing, debating, you know, everything. So I enjoyed |
| 2:00.7 | the class a lot, but at the end of the day I was kind of worn out. I remember I don't know what |
| 2:05.4 | possessed me, but before I left Paris, I grabbed from my room this little paper bag. I think I just |
| 2:12.1 | brought the first part of a divine comedy, the inferno. I thought, well, I'll read this just, |
| 2:16.8 | you know, kind of for relaxation. So I had this little paper bag in my room and I was just |
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