An examination on the Paradise section of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy according to Christian theology

The Paradise section of the Divine Comedy, which has survived since the Middle Ages, portrays the person's meeting with God. After the Hell and Purgatory episodes, Dante, who rose in the layers of Heaven under the guidance of Beatrice,shows the Christian tradition goes back to the 14thcentury along with its development process. Apostles, saints and Christian theologians, who express Dante's mental world, show the salvation mission of Jesus by showing Dante the principles of Christianity throughout the work. It is very important that Dante rise to God with a mi'raj-like event and build a theological structure while doing this. It is one of the aims of the study to deal with the religious symbols and personalities in the section of heaven in terms of Christian literature. Another aim of the study is to show how Dante's mental world is compatible with Christian acceptances,the systematic analysis and classification of the heavenly part. The theological personality and religious arguments of this work, which includes mythology, mysticism, philosophy and theology, rather than being a mere literary product, have been examined on an objective basis. In this study, general information about Dante's life and the Paradise part of the Divine Comedy is given and its relationship with the Christian influences is shown. Theological elements such as Jesus, original sin, Mary, angels in the work were examined with the phenomenological method. It is shown how important these elements, which are accepted as creeds for Christianity, are for the salvation of the individual in Dante's Paradise. The foundations of Dante's theological fiction were analyzed and evaluated in the depths of the Middle Ages, in the Old and New Testaments, and in line with the ideas of theological figures who emerged during the formation process of Christianity, using the historical method. This study clearly demonstrated Dante's commitment to the tripersonalism as a Catholic Christian. The symbolic and intricate structure of the heavenly part is analyzed through the Christian corpus and it is concluded that the teaching of Jesus is important in the salvation mission. Through the dialogues between Dante and the saints, it has been determined that reaching God, who is eternal happiness and salvation, is possible with an ascetic and ascetic life. Keywords: Dante, Divine Comedy, Paradise, Christian Theology, God, Salvation.