Biography
Dante was educated in these three areas of study.
What is theology, philosophy, and poetry?
A numerical reference to the perfection of the Holy Trinity.
What is the number three?
In accounts about Francis of Assisi, this term refers to the miraculous wounds that resemble those of Christ’s crucifixion.
What is stigmata?
This character represented Christ's office of priest.
Who is Frodo?
He is the author of Robin Hood.
Who is Howard Pyle?
He was known as the "Prince of Paradox"
Who was G.K. Chesterton?
The Inferno and The Divine Comedy as a whole, illustrates this type of journey.
What is a spiritual journey?
What is a soldier?
Lembas does not fill anyone physically but aids to strengthen this in the eater so that they may continue further.
What is the will?
This book was a collection of writings and memoirs from Bilbo Baggins, Frodo Baggins, and Samwise Gamgee and would eventually become a completed copy known as Thain’s Book
What is the The Red Book of Westmarch?
Tolkien was a scholar who studied language in written historical sources, focusing on the intersection of textual criticism, literary history, and etymology known as this.
What is a philologist?
The concept that the punishment of an individual's soul in Hell corresponds to the sin that person committed on earth.
What is contrapasso?
Le Jongleur de Dieu means this in English
What is Juggler of God/God's Juggler/Tumbler?
The Ring does not merely grant power and invisibility to its bearer; but also slowly does this to distort the person’s desires, identity, and moral judgment until possession itself becomes a kind of bondage showing this
What is corrupt?
This is G.K. Chesterton's full name.
This was the political party Dante Aligheri was affiliated with.
What are the White Guelphs?
"I was so full of sleep..." refers to this type of love.
What is disordered love?
Francis began the "Search for Martyrdom" looking for his own personal Golgotha because Chesterton believes Francis was this as the moon is to the sun.
What is a mirror of Christ?
Even after receiving repeated mercy, Gollum ultimately clings to his idol with such total possessiveness that he rejects every opportunity for repentance and is destroyed by the very object he refuses to surrender because of his ultimate rejection of this.
This is J.R.R. Tolkien's full name.
What is John Ronald Reul Tolkien.
These are the names of the two orders founded by Francis.
What is the Franciscan Order and Order of Poor Clares?
In the Inferno, Hell does not reveal this about God.
What is God's cruelty?
Chesterton characterized Francis as having this type of spirit as being a man of action.
What is a spirit of swiftness?
The arrival of the Red Arrow serves as the ancient summons of Gondor, leading Théoden to make this crucial decision about the Riders of Rohan.
What is riding to the aid of Gondor at Minas Tirith?
This is the birth name of Francis of Assisi
What is Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone?