INFERNO, Episode 18. Limbo Explained Theologically and Historically

Limbo is already received church doctrine in Dante’s day—but our poet is not above messing around with church orthodoxy.

Join me, Mark Scarbrough, on this interpolated episode in the podcast WALKING WITH DANTE as I talk through the notion of limbo before and in Dante’s day—and the ways he tosses Aquinas and Bonaventura in the bin to hearken back to an older (and maybe heretical) notion on limbo in his poem, COMEDY.

No passage from the poem in this episode—just a lot of background.