Glossary
Roman noble families Jiang says survived by adapting early to Catholic power.
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Black nobility
Roman noble families Jiang says survived by adapting early to Catholic power.
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Glossary
Term or model used in this packet's account of Paul, Christianity, Roman power, or church doctrine.
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historical-model
Roman noble families that adapted by investing early in Catholic religion survive as what Jiang calls Black nobility.
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diagnosis
The Roman Empire adopts Catholicism because it makes slaves work harder through fear of hell.
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Spiritual authority protects wealth better than ordinary kingship because attacking the church risks divine punishment.
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diagnosis
Jiang says Roman dynasties continue through the Catholic Church by storing power, gold, and legitimacy inside it.
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"...they will continue on to today. We call these people the Black nobility. Okay? All right. So, as I mentioned, there are different migrants..."
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"...the Catholic Church will give rise to some people called the Black Nobility, okay? These are 13 families from Rome that still run the..."
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"So remember the Iliad where Achilles triumphs over Hector, but rather than feeling joy and happiness, he feels only sadness, and he can't even..."
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"a relationship, but you become weaker, you feel tired, you lose hope, you probably don't love that person. That person probably doesn't love you,..."
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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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