My Bookshelf
Ecclesiates: Life as Vanity. Job: Life as Suffering. Song of Songs: Life as Love. In these three books Kreeft shows how we have Dante's great epic "The Divine Comedy" played out, from Hell to Purgatory to Heaven. But it is an epic played out in our hearts and lives, here and now. Just as there is movement in Dante's epic, so there is movement in these books, from Ecclesiastes' to Job, from Job to Songs of Songs. Love is the final answer to Ecclesiastes' quest, the alternative to vanity, and the true meaning of life. Finally, Kreeft sees in these books the epitome of the theological vitues of the faith, hope and love an essential summary of the spiritual history of the world.