Or somewhere in between as maybe religious fiction?
2007-08-10 17:41:42 · 11 answers · asked by Riverwind 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I hope not
2007-08-10 17:45:37 · answer #1 · answered by nikola333 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I figured that's where at least the roman catholics got all their ideas about their religion. None of the crap they believe is in the bible and besides, Alighieri is so much more fun to read. Not that many of the christians I've met in real life have read the bible seriously anyway...
2007-08-10 18:01:10 · answer #2 · answered by Entropy 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would recommend reading it- it has a lot of insight into the intellectual world of the high middle ages. Dante wrote it as a satire of 13th century Catholic doctrine and even Science of the period. He even places at least one Pope in hell. It has stood the ages because the themes addressed in the story are always relevant- even though the specifics are not.
2016-05-19 05:06:47 · answer #3 · answered by shirleen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most Christians don't realize it, but most of their ideas of hell come from Dante. But other than that I don't think many on here will have read it, unless it comes in comic book form.
2007-08-10 17:47:07 · answer #4 · answered by keri gee 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it is an allegory;
"Allegory is a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity, greed, or envy."
an allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.
the link below will provide you a critical analysis of this peice of classical literature.
2007-08-10 17:55:11 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I can only speak for myself, as a Catholic. The divine comedy is fiction.
2007-08-10 17:46:10 · answer #6 · answered by zytlaly 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Most Christians like myself consider it fiction because it isn't Biblically sound.
2007-08-10 17:44:46 · answer #7 · answered by chrstnwrtr 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I am confident that the vast majority haven't read it. There might be some that would take it seriously, but I suspect not many.
2007-08-10 17:45:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
They have no clue who he was. They have no idea that the hell they believe in was taken from the inferno of Dante.
The catholic church even used the purgatory from it.
They believe so many lies!it is scary!.
2007-08-10 17:47:22 · answer #9 · answered by ateo 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A series of moral allegories...if it is instructive, that is enough.
2007-08-10 17:47:40 · answer #10 · answered by Ward 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋