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Lessons from Hell

Descending with Dante

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Melody Dowlearn
Jul 08, 2025
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Absolved uncontrite means no absolution,

Nor can one will at once sin and contrition,

The contradictions bar the false conclusion.1

Dante’s Inferno presents both personal and theological contradictions that bar any false conclusion. So clever is his poetic rendition of hell, that I have discovered theological approval from both the universalist and tradit…

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