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1 timestamped hit 1 source reading 1 extracted note Newest source: 2026-06-16, day precision Aliases: church-as-empires, church-empire, church-empires

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church as empire

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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "way okay um so we'll talk about this today um but Dante is very much a revolutionary he's going to influence all his uh..."

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: Why Paradise Needs Human Imagination (2026-06-16, day precision).

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church as empire

Glossary

Jiang's description of the Catholic Church when it becomes geopolitically and temporally powerful at the expense of spirituality.

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Why Paradise Needs Human Imagination

2026-06-16, day precision · glossary, semantic-ref

Reading

Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.

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