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Jiang says this free-will-first structure contradicts mainstream church theology and would have been revolutionary around the year 1300.
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Jiang says Dante is a heretic in the sense that he is not going to follow church theology on this question.
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"Yes? Would this kind of be in contradiction to people like Anselm at the time who were really interested in describing how God was..."
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"...we can do whatever we want, right? So this goes against church theology. But this again is why this is a radical revolutionary poem..."
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"...Dante he is a heretic he is not going to follow church theology and um the the sexual nature of this language what what..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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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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