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Manfred presents himself as excommunicated by the Church but nevertheless accepted by God after turning back in tears at the moment of death.
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Excommunication
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Jiang resolves the paradox by making direct faith in God primary and church punishment secondary: excommunication may lengthen Purgatory, but it cannot block divine mercy.
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Heresy is defined not as initial misunderstanding but as refusal to admit church authority after the church has educated someone.
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"stroke when i had humbly noted that i had never seen him he said look now showing me a wound high on his chest..."
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"Now rain bathes my bones, the wind has driven them beyond the kingdom, near the Verdi's banks, where he transported them with tapers bent...."
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"How can we understand this? Yes. He said, as I was dying, basically in tears, I suddenly was like, God, please forgive me. And..."
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"Yeah. So God is all forgiving. Okay. You have a direct connection to God and, if you get executed by the church that's bad..."
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"So you might be in purgatory for like one year, if you steal, but you might also be there for a thousand years if..."
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"And therefore, the church has a responsibility to educate you. Once the church educates you, and you still refuse to admit the authority of..."
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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