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The Black Death creates a paradox for Jiang's reading because Dante's God is all-loving and merciful, yet the poem seems to promise catastrophic retribution.
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Divine love
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Jiang endorses the student's identification of David as the man after God's own heart and heightens it into the claim that David is the person God loves most.
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Jiang says the universe's fundamental principle is free will, and free will is an expression of God's love, so divine coercive intervention would contradict that order.
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A student's appeal to free will as evidence of divine love is treated by Jiang as insufficient because it remains only logical or discursive.
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A second classroom answer says the willingness to sacrifice one's son is the largest possible representation of divine love, and Jiang says that love logic is close to Dante's explanation.
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"it's coming they know god will have his vengeance will have his retribution okay but this again creates a paradox for us because if..."
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"Exactly. He is the person that God loves the most. There is no other person that God loves as much as David. Okay? It's..."
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"again it's peter and he's and he's saying um and he's saying okay that the vatican is now the seat of satan right so..."
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"that is disrespecting people's free will it's intervening exactly so god cannot intervene"
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"right because again the fundamental principle of the universe is free will and free will is a manifestation an expression of god's love for..."
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"loves you because he gave you the free will like you like I mean the Divine Comedy says that through your own fate or..."
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"do you convince someone that God is love right and that's what Divine Comedy yeah all right so what's going on why would the..."
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"because he can resurrect himself yes okay the sacrificing your own son has to be like the biggest representation of love and that's the..."
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"did he really sacrifice his son because jesus didn't die right but he was willing to show us okay yes okay that's actually donna's..."
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"...that the entire universe is actually powered by his decentralized unbannable divine love that no"
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"fellowship. With the same stars that had escorted it when divine love first moved those things of beauty. So that the hour and the..."
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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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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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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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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