Richard Hughes Gibson – The Way of Dante

‘For centuries, readers have marveled at the imaginative brilliance of authors like C.S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers and Charles Williams but what inspired these literary giants’?

Brent talks with Richard Hughes Gibson about his new IVP book ‘The Way of Dante: Going Through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven with C.S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Charles Williams’.

Richard is a professor of English at Wheaton College and is the author of a number of books.  

• (0:55) Bringing new readers into the world of Dante;
• (2:30) Sayers and Dante;
• (4:00) Williams and Dante;
• (6:15) Lewis and Dante;
• (7:35) Lewis and Sayers;
• (9:50) Sayers’ translation of Dante;
• (11:30) Letters about Dante;
• (16:40) Dante’s heaven;
• (19:55) ‘Dante and his Daughter’;
• (22:10) ‘The Great Divorce’.

Links mentioned in this episode:

/www.amazon.com/Way-Dante-Through-Purgatory-Williams/dp/151401338X

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