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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Okay. All right. So a couple comments. First of all, let's start with precise morphology. He is not a theologian. He is a poet...."
Jiang says the Catholic Church of Dante's time is trying to build a self-contained Christian theology distinct from other traditions and in conflict especially with the Muslim tradition, which he describes as the most powerful religious tradition in the world at that point.
"Okay. All right. So a couple comments. First of all, let's start with precise morphology. He is not a theologian. He is a poet...."
Jiang opens the Dante series by doing something deliberately strange: he starts with Paradise, rejects the clever but dead answer, and says imagination is the road to truth.
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