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Jiang defines sin here as being weighed down by one's own actions and refusing the self-forgiveness that would allow one to change.
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One student proposes that purgatory tests whether the soul's mindset has really changed from hell's.
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The student himself interprets the dream as bound up with change, reflection on past wrongs, and a desire for redemption.
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Jiang extends the claim even further by saying that each reading of Inferno changes Inferno itself, because changed perception becomes part of the poem's living reality.
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He says the nature of hell changes over time as humanity's conscience changes, so pagan underworld and Christian hell are historically related but not identical structures.
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Jiang treats the experiential effect of reading the Divine Comedy as the next relevant test case after the possession debate.
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Jiang identifies the heresy in Adam's speech as the claim that even the name of God changes over time rather than remaining fixed and immutable.
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He argues that the Catholic Church insists on Christianity's constancy, whereas Adam says change is natural and faith itself can be changed.
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"that he can he's not able to change himself and that's what sin is right sin is you are weighed down by your actions..."
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"Fred? I think it's to test whether their mindset is true and whether their mindset is different from those in hell and that it's..."
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"...take a guess that like, I'm not I'm looking for a change in my life right now. And, um, and I've been thinking about..."
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"...constantly evolving so um with each reading of inferno inferno itself changes if that makes sense okay when you read inferno the way you..."
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"...to it for a collective imagination so the nature of hell changes over time as a conscience of humanity changes over time right does..."
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"Okay. All right. That's very interesting. Okay. Let me ask you this question. Okay. Did we have a... Let me ask you this question...."
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"...I was called I. And then he was called L. Such change must be. The ways that mortals take are as the leaves upon..."
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"Okay. So there's heresy here. What is the heresy? Yes."
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"...all consistent. And what Adam is saying is, no, it's all change. We change the name of God over time. And that was just..."
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"...time, what's going to happen is that we're going to constantly change our language, constantly refresh our language in order to express the divine...."
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"...go through suffering because you actually want to make a positive change in the world and not just like"
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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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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