Dr. David Allen White expounds on Dante’s masterpiece, explaining how The Divine Comedy transforms the faulty notion of courtly love into the mystical union between the soul and God. In...
Dr. David Allen White continues the discussion of the life and work of William Shakespeare. Working with reference to various plays and poems, Dr. David Allen White evokes here the...
Dr. David Allen White discusses the life and works of John Milton and the problem of the two traditions. Is Milton a Protestant writer? Can his form of Christianity ultimately...
Dr. David Allen White explores the work of Corneille, Racine and Moliere and the French Neoclassical Drama. Seventeenth Century French culture reflects two major spiritual and intellectual themes: those of...
Dr. David Allen White explores Mozart’s Catholic character through one of his greatest operas, Don Giovanni. Everyone knows that Mozart was a genius who worked both for Catholics and secularists,...
Dr. David Allen White notes that culture is a reflection of what men love. If vice and self are what they love, then vice and fatuousness will be depicted around...
Dr. David Allen White uses Dante Alighieri’s works to explain the problems in the postconciliar Church. In the 1921 encyclical In Praeclara Summorum Pope Benedict XV wrote “Among the many...
David Allen White says God created man with the ability to continue creation, primarily through procreation, but also through the arts. Man is called to create what is beautiful because...
Dr. David Allen White lectures on the literary and religious significance of Dante Alighieri and Thomas Stearns Eliot.
...Dr. David Allen White presents a sympathetic critique of the role of the theater in the life of the Christian. While clearly favorable to the union of stage and Church,...