Anger In PURGATORIO and INFERNO

Walking With Dante

In this interpolated episode among those on our slow-walk through Dante's masterpiece, COMEDY, let's discuss the specific sin of anger (or wrath), particularly as it related to both PURGATORIO (the canticle we're in) and INFERNO (where we've come from).

Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we explore the definitions and inside-the-poem problems of anger.

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Here are the segments for this episode of WALKING WITH DANTE:

[01:22] Anger is the first sin or human failing found overtly in both INFERNO (at cantos VII and VIII) and PURGATORIO (at cantos XV - XVII).

[08:14] Dante's earlier thoughts on the answer to wrath in CONVIVIO.

[12:10] Why is calling anger a sin such a problem in Christian theology?

[16:02] Comparing INFERNO, Cantos XV and XVI, with PURGATORIO, Cantos XV and XVI.

[21:00] Frederick Buechner's definition of anger from WISHFUL THINKING: A SEEKER'S ABC.