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Jiang explains the passage by rejecting a theological rumor about James and insisting that only Jesus and Mary ascend to heaven bodily.
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Bodily ascent
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He argues that the truly outrageous part is that Dante, unlike James, is presented as worthy of ascending to heaven bodily, which Jiang treats as another expression of Dante's deliberate poetic arrogance.
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"Okay. All right. So the reference is this. James, there's a theory among theologians that James was able to ascend to heaven in his..."
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"On Judgment Day, our bodies will return to us, okay? All right. So in other words, they've already been judged and they've been, okay?..."
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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