Glossary
The order Jiang describes as a learning-centered, orthodoxy-enforcing precursor to the Jesuits and one half of Dante's paired reform problem.
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Dominicans
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Thomas Aquinas. Thomas Aquinas is part of an order called the Dominicans, okay?"
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Thomas Aquinas. Thomas Aquinas is part of an order called the Dominicans, okay?"
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Glossary
Order Jiang links to identifying Cathars and feeding the Inquisition.
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Jiang characterizes the Dominicans as a pre-Jesuit order devoted to learning and education in service of enforcing Christian orthodoxy.
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Jiang identifies Dante's governing question here as why reform movements rooted in selfless knowledge or selfless spirituality begin well and still fail.
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Jiang says the paradox of the canto is that Thomas Aquinas, a Dominican, praises the Franciscans and criticizes his own order, while Bonaventure will later do the reverse for the Dominicans and Franciscans.
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He says Francis founded the Franciscan order as a movement devoted to poverty, while Dominic founded the Dominican order as a movement devoted to learning and Catholic orthodoxy.
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Jiang says Aquinas treats Dominican corruption as the result of excessive institutional power: a learned order spread through Europe as inquisitors and was ultimately corrupted by that power.
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Jiang says the Dominicans were founded to address the Cathar threat facing the Catholic Church in southern France.
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He says the Dominican solution was not primarily the sword but the pen: identify heretics through interrogation, isolate them, and re-educate them into orthodoxy.
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The quoted canto presents Dominic as a torrent striking the thickets of heresy and also warns that his own order later lost its original track and became internally divided.
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"...Thomas Aquinas. Thomas Aquinas is part of an order called the Dominicans, okay?"
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"The Dominicans are essentially the Jesuits, the pre -Jesuits. And these are people who are dedicated to learning and education. And they are doing..."
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"...is it that these two movements, which started out great, the Dominicans with their selfless pursuit of knowledge and the Franciscans with their selfless..."
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"...is weird because uh thomas aquinas is of the of the dominican order but he will explain the glories of the franciscan order now..."
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"...who are devoted to poverty and then dominic who founded the dominican order who will promote themselves uh who will dedicate themselves"
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"to learning as well as promoting um catholic orthodoxy throughout europe okay these are the ones who are responsible to squash all heresies okay..."
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"...um St Thomas Aquinas the reason why he thinks that the Dominican order became corrupt is eventually they've had too much power right the..."
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"Okay, so let's go into the history of the Dominicans. The Dominicans were founded for a very specific purpose. So, at this time in..."
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"...example is going to possibly overfill us. So they create the Dominican order in order to deal with the Cathar threat, the Aborigines Crusade...."
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"...could then re -educate them. And that's the idea behind the Dominican order. And as you can imagine, the Dominicans fought themselves. They were..."
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"Verse 97. Then he, with both his learning and his zeal, and with his apostolic office, like a torrent hurtled from a mountain source,..."
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"And soon we are to see, at harvest time, the poor grain gathered where the tares will be denied a place within the bin..."
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