RT Article
T1 Teaching Dante in the History of Christian Theology
JF Religions
VO 10
IS 6
SP 1
OP 5
A1 Whitfield, Bryan J.
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1671451589
AB Outside of core curriculum programs or Great Books classes, few undergraduates who are not literature majors read and discuss Dante's Divine Comedy. This paper describes the redesign of a course in the history of Christian theology as a model for integrating the study of Dante into additional contexts within general education. Reading Dante not only as poet but also as theologian can enhance students' learning and their engagement with medieval theology. A focused reading of Paradiso provides a novel and exciting way for a survey course in historical theology to balance general education's needs for both breadth and depth. At the same time, reading Dante also helps students to experience the significant intersections of culture and theology in the medieval period.
K1 Dante
K1 core and general education curricula
K1 history of theology
K1 Interdisciplinarity
K1 Literary Studies
K1 Medieval Theology
K1 Pedagogy
DO 10.3390/rel10060372