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This compelling new work argues that appreciation of the Divine Comedy has been hindered by lack of understanding of how Dante used theology to articulate his ideas. He should be understood not just as a poet - indeed the 'Supreme Poet', as Italians call him - but also as a remarkable theologian.

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Presents eight essays covering the major issues of philosophical and practical theology that Denys Turner has focused on over the fifty years of his academic career. While a somewhat heterogeneous collection, the chapters are loosely linked by a focus on the mystery of God and on distinguishing that mystery from merely idolatrous mystifications.

Turner approaches the problem of the relation of Marxism and Christianity in a novel and important way. [An] important contribution to the ongoing Christian-Marxist dialogue. Highly recommended.

Offers a sensitive new interpretation of Julian of Norwich and the significance of her work.

A detailed portrait of the public teacher, preacher and theologian.

Denys Turner argues that there are reasons of faith why the existence of God should be thought rationally demonstrable and that it is worthwhile revisiting the theology of Thomas Aquinas to see why. The proposition that the existence of God is demonstrable by rational argument is doubted by nearly all philosophical opinion today and is thought by most Christian theologians to be incompatible with Christian faith. Turner's robust challenge to t...

A closely argued book about what the negative tradition in Western theology involves.

A short compelling portrait of one of the most influential philosophers and theologians in Western thought.

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Monks and priests - male celibates - have for centuries described, expressed, and celebrated their love for God in the language of sex, most prolifically and characteristically in a thousand-year tradition of theological commentaries on the scriptural Song of Songs. As their allegory for the intimate love between God and man, they chose the most intense human model available - erotic love. After analyzing the tradition, its logic, and its imag...

This book aims to reconcile the apparently contradictory, but - as the author sees it - actually complementary outlooks of head and heart: faith responsibly and properly lived is a matter of appropriately integrating emotion and reason.