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Jiang says the Nicene Creed functioned as a coercive enforcement mechanism for the Church's trinitarian doctrine.
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Church power
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Jiang says the church's emphasis on temporal power and obedience rather than spirituality helped limit the imagination of medieval Europe, and he adds that common modern views of the Middle Ages are anachronistic.
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Jiang argues that asking Europeans to deny themselves and submit completely to Church power produces corruption, stagnation, and inequality, helping explain why the Islamic world raced ahead.
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"In fact, they created something called the Nicene Creed to enforce this on every sin. So the Catholic Church is a venue where every..."
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"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..."
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"When we deny who we are, when we submit fully to God, we can create a perfect world. We can achieve heaven. Okay? So,..."
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"...but they came about because of their harsh criticism criticism of church power and wealth okay and the second thing about the church was..."
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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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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 Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings.
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