Understanding God's Judgement: A Biblical Perspective

“For you shall see the sorrowful souls of those who, having lost the good of intellect, put their trust in nothing.” (Inferno III)

Dante’s Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri wrote the famous masterpiece The Divine Comedy in early 14th century Italy. The first part, Inferno, opens on the evening of Good Friday in the year 1300, with Dante lost in a dark forest. As he attempts to climb a mountain, three beasts block him; a leopard representing malice and fraud, a lion representing violence…