Dante the Theologian: Ken Woodward Interviews Denys Turner

Kenneth Woodward and Professor Denys Turner on April 10, 2024 at the University Club of Chicago. Dante Alighieri was a great poet. But Denys Turner insists that he was also a great theologian—and that what makes his theology great is his poetry. Turner argues, Dante was able to write his masterpiece only after he had personally journeyed through Hell and Purgatory like Dante, the pilgrim character in The Divine Comedy. Is this the case? Ken Woodward, former Newsweek religion editor and Lumen Christi’s Writer-in-Residence, asked all these questions during an interview with Denys Turner. Their interview reveals original and creative insight into Dante's Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso.