The Celestial Rose and The Point of Life: Lessons from Dante and Lewis

We don’t need “this or that.” We need Wholeness.

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In Dante’s “Paradiso,” God is described as a point — “punctum.” It is a point of light, a singularity that is both infinitesimally small and infinitely powerful. From this point, all creation and being flow out. The saints and Mary sit in a huge Celestial Rose as if in a theater and contemplate The Point.

God is The Point of life. In Dante’…