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Jiang's working explanation is that Boniface's claim to hold the keys of heaven creates a real contract of church authority, which is why Francis must initially honor it.
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Church authority
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Jiang calls this a paradox because excommunication should function like a straight-to-hell sentence if Church authority were final.
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Jiang says Christianity eventually replaces the Holy Roman Empire as the dominant force in Europe and the world, with Peter becoming the first bishop of Rome and Paul laying the church's foundations.
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Calvinist justification by faith relocates proof of faith away from church-mediated works and into the direct relation between the individual and God.
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Jiang argues that Galileo's real danger was not disagreement with Church science but claiming authority to interpret Scripture above the Church.
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Calvin's double predestination denies Church authority by making salvation a divine decision already settled before Church mediation can matter.
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Rome's original primacy came from being the capital of the Roman Empire, but the move of the capital to Constantinople allowed Constantinople to challenge that primacy by imposing orthodoxy.
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Jiang says Augustine solves the crisis by making the Church a representative of God outside ordinary history, while mortal politics remains a battle for power.
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"the story one paradox is yes uh what did francis agree to help him and two how did the black sherbin have more power..."
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"history to hear these ideas would be revolutionary right because at this time in history everyone did believe the pope was the representative of..."
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"Okay, so they are moving towards Purgatory. They're an empty Purgatory, right? So they're not yet entered the gates of Purgatory, and they're meeting..."
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"So the Holy Roman Empire lasts for a long, long time. And from the perspective of dominant Europeans, this is all the stability, the..."
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"will recognize is, they don't actually have the population resources to maintain their empire, so they will retreat and leave this empire to the..."
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"And God knows if you are faithful, and you yourself know if you're faithful. So if you spend money, if you build stuff, that..."
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"model, he was coming into conflict with a lot of academics that were extremely well established who made their living off the heliocentric model,..."
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"That's what the Bible says. Also, if you look at Genesis, it's clear that God created the Earth first, and then he created the..."
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"So, this is the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. Martin Luther, Martin Luther starts this doctrinal debate, and John Calvin also contributes to it..."
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"But, it was understood the primary church was Rome because Rome was the center, the capital, of the Roman Empire. And because of this,..."
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"And they believe that by converting to Christianity, two things happen. The first thing happened was the old gods, Jupiter and the others, became..."
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"What does that mean? It means that history is really about mortals battling for power. But the Catholic Church, it is a representative of..."
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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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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The Dutch Golden Age begins with a poisoned Spanish windfall and ends with Vermeer exposing cracks in the respectable household.
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Science begins here as a theological discipline of doubt.
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The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not much of an empire.
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