This is a must listen for everyone. Narration is excellent! This is one you’ll want to listen to over and over.
Amazing!
Review from Uniformity with God’s Will →
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great insight into truly understanding Purgatory…not at a merely academic level but the spiritual level which Dante was writing for…not with modern slant or sensationalism. If you’ve never read The Divine Comedy, this is a marvelous companion to bring it to life (unlike the more academic Great Course and my least favorite modern Scholar course).
VOICES GALORE
Review from Saints Who Battled Satan →
Excellent read. Excellent naration. The perfect balance of concise and detailed. Fast paced without feeling cheated for details.
Wonderful lectures!!!
Review from Dante’s Purgatory →
I am a Protestant believer and after reading three different translations of The Divine Comedy (including Professor Esolen’s), I was having an especially difficult time understanding and sympathizing with Dante’s Purgatorio. How should I approach this poem about existence in a place many Protestants believe is a mistake in theology? Professor Esolen’s lectures helped tremendously…
We have to start praying to our beloved friends and family members who passed away, if they don’t exit with us it doesn’t mean that they don’t need us.
The book is a great start to waging the spiritual war within. Details on practically applying to self are found in other works.
Lawler hit the nail right on the head! Beautiful solutions to the problem are presented!
This book is not just for children – adults will learn much from it too. It will turn even a history novice into a very knowledgeable person in just a few hours! The breadth and scope of content is impressive spanning the first civilisations of Mesopotamia right through to the conversion of Constantine. It has..
This book was written not out of a spirit of joyful renewal or celebration of life or very legitimate dissent within the Catholic Church. No, it was written in a complaining, condemning, nagging, repressive spirit that exults suffering as if it were a cardinal virtue. No thanks.
A lot of good things but way too many false generalizations about priests who are pastors. You’d think we all have cooks, cleaning people, fancy rectories. The author should see how most of us really live! While the author has no problem belittling faithful clergy, he goes out of his way to defend Francis and..