Dante and Aquinas

Christopher Ryan has earned recognition and awards as a community journalist, teacher, actor, independent filmmaker, and sketch comedy writer, but mostly he writes fast-paced stories with humor and heart. He has independently published four novels including two Mallory and Gunner supernatural police procedurals getting rebooted in 2024. His short stories have been published in several horror, mystery, crime and pop culture anthologies. Additionally, he's written many tales featuring Alex Simmons' famed Blackjack adventurer. Ryan is also the founder and publisher at Seamus and Nunzio Productions, LLC. Soul Scream Antholozine is his current fiction project, an experiment in form combining horror anthology and magazine elements with a serialized arc threaded throughout the six-volume set celebrating hybrid horror. Rebecca Cuthbert's Creep Like This: How to Become a Horror Writer is his first non-fiction publishing project. Additionally, he serves as the secretary of the Horror Writers Association's New York Chapter and is a member of the Mystery Writers of America. Find him on social media as thischrisryan.

Christopher Ryan's study of Dante and Aquinas, touching on issues of nature and grace, of explicit and implicit faith, and of desire and destiny, is intended to mark the difference between them in key areas of theological sensibility. Re-shaped and revised by John Took on the basis of papers made available to him from Christopher Ryan's estate, it seeks to deepen our understanding of one of the great cultural encounters in European letters.Christoper Ryan (1943-2004) was Professor of Italian in the University of Sussex and Dean of King's College, Cambridge.John Took is Professor of Dante Studies at University College London.