Jason Baxter is an associate professor of fine arts and humanities at Wyoming Catholic College and a prolific writer. He has published or completed five books since 2018, including A Beginner’s Guide to Dante’s Divine Comedy and The Infinite Beauty of the World: Dante’s Encyclopedia and the Names of God. Jason joins Ryan to discuss all things Divine Comedy. Jason talks about the best way to read Dante and explains why some people struggle through the Paradiso. He and Ryan also play a game of “Would You Rather” where Jason tells us about his love of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.
Modernity and Medievalism
Microcosm and macrocosm
Why the Inferno is so popular
Vision in Dante
Is there a narrative in the Divine Comedy?
Dante and the invention of purgatory
What will heaven actually be like?
Beatitude in community
Cowboy Platonist
Links:
Black Elk
Petrarch’s ascent
Jacob Burkhardt
A Beginner’s Guide to Dante’s Divine Comedy by Jason Baxter
Falling Inward: Humanities in the Age of Technology by Jason Baxter
The Infinite Beauty of the World: Dante’s Encyclopedia and the Names of God by Jason Baxter
An Introduction to Christian Mysticism: Recovering the Wildness of Spiritual Life by Jason Baxter
Hugh of Saint Victor
Divine Comedy
Anthony Esolen translation
Gianfranco Contini
Umberto Eco
Jorge Borges
The Birth of Purgatory by Jacques Le Goff
Paul Griffiths
The Great Divorce by CS Lewis
Blessed John Duns Scotus
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Death, Be Not Proud” by John Donne
“For Once, Then, Something” by Robert Frost
“Supernatural Love” by Gjertrud Schnackenberg