Journal Article Review

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Find a scholarly, peer reviewed, full-text journal article on any topic pertaining to developmental psychology.
CCU library’s online full-text journal article search will be helpful in completing this assignment. You may
access the CCU library website by clicking on the Clifton Fowler Library link in the left sidebar for this course.
Your article needs to be peer-reviewed, which means experts in the field have reviewed it to ensure its
credibility before its publication. In other words, Psychology Today is not an appropriate source, but the
International Journal of Group Psychotherapy is appropriate. On the CCU Library website, you can choose to
have results limited to only those that have been peer-reviewed and those that are full-text by selecting these
options when searching topics. After selecting the “Articles” yellow tab and searching for your topic, click the
“Full Text” and “Peer Reviewed” boxes that appear in the left sidebar of your search results to filter only articles
that match this criteria and your selected search topic. Reading only an abstract is not sufficient for this
assignment; articles must be full-text.
After reading your selected article in full, write a summary paper that is two to three pages (not including your
cover page and reference page) in length and follows APA writing guidelines. The following should be included
in your summary paper:
What was the purpose for this study?
Identification of participant demographics.
For example, was the study made up of 20 college-aged students at a small liberal arts college or 500
participants referred by inpatient psychiatric hospitals?
What were the results of this study?
What other factors should be considered when making conclusions about the results?
Include a biblical perspective on the topic using relevant Scripture to support your viewpoint.
Include in the reference page a link to the journal article for easy access.
This paper should be two to three pages in length (in addition to a cover page and reference page) and should
meet the expectations outlined in the grading rubric. Please use Kail & Cavanaugh (2019) in addition to your
journal article for a reference (make sure to reference both on your reference page) and include relevant
Scripture references.

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Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell. 

In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.


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God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.

Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.

To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.

 

References

Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.

Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies, 4(8), 487.

Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.

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