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Jiang claims purgatory was not common before Dante but became much more common in Christian theology after the Divine Comedy.
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Christian Theology
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Jiang argues that Dante restructures Christian theology by placing Mary, not Jesus, at the center, because a mortal woman giving birth to God becomes the deeper miracle.
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"...But after Dante, purgatory became a much more common concept in Christian theology. All right. Also, what, if you actually read the Divine Comedy,..."
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"...Mary. What is amazing about divine harmony is how Dante restructures Christian theology. Remember, in Christian theology, Jesus is the epicenter. But in Dante's..."
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"...instead of this or you know something much more appropriate to christian theology if we knew better then there would be no need for..."
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"...He's going to change that by bringing Israelian thought back into Christian theology, okay? So that's Thomas Aquinas. Thomas Aquinas is part of an..."
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"...what does this mean? Okay, so the word rapture comes from Christian theology. Okay, so the idea is that, there's a war in the..."
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"...ask that because of well, in addition to the Enlightenment versus Christian theology in the US, there was the slaver culture, which we saw..."
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"...you're sick. Okay. Well, that makes no, well then, according to Christian theology then the baby would burn in hell. That's, doesn't make any..."
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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The host begins by asking who Jiang is and what Predictive History means.
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The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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