Virtuous pagan
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Virtuous pagan is a concept in Christian theology addressing the fate of the unlearned—the issue of nonbelievers who were never evangelized and consequently during their lifetime had no opportunity to
Plato and Aristotle, Fresco from The School of Athens in the Apostolic Palace, Vatican City
Divine Comedy
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The Divine Comedy is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed c. 1321, shortly before the author's death. It is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian liter
Virtuous pagan
…patristic Fathers, had they been asked directly, may have denied that pagans and Jews could become partakers of eternal life." Dante Alighieri, in his Divine Comedy, places a number of virtuous pagans in the first circle of Hell (analogous to Limbo), including Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan. Intriguingly, the Muslim…
Dante shown holding a copy of the Divine Comedy, next to the entrance to Hell, the seven terraces of Mount Purgatory and the city of Florence, with the spheres of Heaven above, in Domenico di Michelino's 1465 fresco
Dante gazes at Mount Purgatory in an allegorical portrait by Agnolo Bronzino, painted c. 1530
Virgil
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