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Term or model used in this packet's account of Paul, Christianity, Roman power, or church doctrine.
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Augustine
Term or model used in this packet's account of Paul, Christianity, Roman power, or church doctrine.
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The pear-garden story rewrites Eden and Augustine by saying God wants rule-breaking creativity that increases wealth.
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Jiang says Rome’s western fall is less meaningful than it appears because power had already shifted from empire to Church, and post-Roman warlords still considered themselves heirs of Rome.
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Augustine systematizes Paul into the Church as beyond history, where kings fight for land but the Church decides heaven and hell.
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Jiang says Augustine reverses Jesus by saying the inner spark is not divine but satanic pride.
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The doctrine of original sin teaches that humans are born evil and redeemed only through Christ and church authority.
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Student questions clarify that pride is permitted only if the Pope or church authority defines it as obedience to God.
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Jiang says official Catholic teaching treats the Church as the millennium or messianic age and emphasizes personal salvation under Church guidance rather than a literal political end-times program.
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Augustine turns ransom theory into the Catholic Church's intellectual blueprint: because God ransomed humans, humans are now God's slaves and must distrust imagination, intuition, and self-love.
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"When I was little, I was at the place of an old lord, and he had peers of extraordinary flavor. He gave me some..."
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"Having immediately concluded that there must be some kind of trick here, when I got there, I first climbed up the ladder, and I..."
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"Thereafter, he posted a lot of guards to stand watch in the garden at night. What did I do? I went with my boys,..."
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"...Number two is, it's also a rewriting of a story in Augustine's Confessions. So Augustine is one of the main architects of the Catholic..."
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"...Rome is no longer a power. It doesn't really matter anymore. Augustine, who was... Who is the main architect of the Catholic Church, okay?..."
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"And that's the power of the church. One thing to remember about Europe is that there are lots of geopolitics. There are lots of..."
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"...to be creative, in order to seek truth for ourselves. But Augustine Paul teaches us that we exist in order to obey God. Why?..."
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"So if the Pope tells you to take pride in being a part of the Church, you can't be, like, you are allowed?"
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"Like, if we really, like, try to pursue the original Jesus to believe that is to pursue our divine spark, but pride is a..."
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"...is the Catholic eschatology. Now, it's interesting because if you read Augustine and the City of God, what he argues is that the Church..."
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"a policy of personal eschatology, which argues that it is for our own personal transformation, our own personal salvation and redemption through the guidance..."
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"...God. And this very idea will be expanded and elaborated by Augustine in order to create the intellectual blueprint for the Catholic Church. All..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Jewish history, Sabbatai Zevi, and Jacob Frank: Jerusalem begins as an imperial hinge, exile becomes a crisis of faith, and Frankism turns sin, story, money, secrecy, and...
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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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Jesus arrives as a poor prophet of the inner spark; Paul turns that spark into belief, obedience, ritual, hierarchy, and a machine that can outlive Rome.
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The episode's pressure is not that religion sometimes decorates politics.
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The Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings.
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The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not much of an empire.
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Byzantium survives for a thousand years because it solves Rome's political problem.
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The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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