ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

DANTE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In Saturn, what does Peter Damian say about God’s ways?
A
He says that God’s ways are similar to those of Roman emperors.
B
He says that God’s ways are extremely simple.
C
He says that God’s ways are beyond human understanding.
D
He says that God’s ways are only available to those in heaven.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The most important aspect of Dante’s idea of God as Trinity is his understanding of the figure of Christ. According to Dante’s Trinitarian understanding of God, Christ is the incarnation in human form of the second person of the Trinity. Christ is therefore seen as being at the same time fully God and fully human.

Detailed explanation-2: -The whole cosmos, according to Dante, ultimately depends on God who, as the ground of all being, exists beyond space and time in the Empyrean. The Empyrean is an immaterial heaven, made up only of the love and metaphysical light which God is. It is in the Empyrean that the angels and the blessed also dwell.

Detailed explanation-3: -God appears as three equally large circles occupying the same space, representing the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Within these circles Dante can discern the human form of Christ.

Detailed explanation-4: -Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars. These concluding words of Inferno describe Dante and Virgil’s climb out of the underworld and back to the surface of the Earth (XXXIV. 134–140).

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