A student answers that witnessing God's beauty and greatness directly is what gives Dante the courage to continue into exile.
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Beauty of God
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"...because he witnessed the light and the greatness and the beauty of God with his own eyes, and that gives him the courage to..."
"...If God is perfection, if God is love, if God is beauty, God would never require anything of you."
"...If God is perfection, if God is love, if God is beauty, God would never require anything of you."
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
A source-grounded reading of Dante as a dangerous poem: poetry enters memory like a virus, Virgil appears as guide and trap, and hell becomes the world people choose when obedience replaces love.
Dante is not offering a church-approved tour of the afterlife.
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