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The rich-born saint Jiang uses as the decisive example of wealth renounced for a life of divine poverty.
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Francis of Assisi
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Jiang says the real Jesus was not an empire builder or church bureaucrat but a teacher of poverty, kindness, generosity, and love, and he claims Dante tries to recover that spirit through figures such as Francis of Assisi.
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Jiang says Dante came from a good family but was not an aristocrat by Florentine standards, and he uses Francis of Assisi as the clearer case of spiritually significant renunciation because Francis gave up great inherited wealth.
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"have been indoctrinated to believe that only wealth matters okay blessed are the poor you are what who god truly truly loves don't seek..."
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"was no catholic church um when he was around he was part of a movement called the poor okay have you guys learned this..."
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"money i'm not about my wealth and then jesus says to others truly it is harder for a man to uh what what was"
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"...recognizes and um when dante talks about uh saint uh francis of assisi right he will conjure up he will help us remember that..."
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"...okay also let me ask you this question was saint francis of assisi you know the man who became the founder of the friends..."
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"...called the Franciscan Order, okay? The Franciscan Order was founded by Francis Assisi, who made a vow to poverty. And this is very similar..."
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"...the Church is to establish a new society led by Francis of Assisi called the Dominicans, okay, the Dominicans, which goes and basically tries..."
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"...something called the Franciscan Order, the Friars, founded by the Francis of Assisi. And this is a brotherhood focused on a life of humility..."
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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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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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