Glossary
The doctrine that God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are separate, equal, and one; Jiang frames it as an enforced formula that must be accepted rather than reasoned through.
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Holy Trinity
The doctrine that God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are separate, equal, and one; Jiang frames it as an enforced formula that must be accepted rather than reasoned through.
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Glossary
The Nicaean claim that God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit are separate but co-equal.
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The Council of Nicaea solves doctrinal conflict with the Holy Trinity, but Jiang says the solution is more problematic than the alternatives because it must be accepted as reality rather than reasoned through.
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The Nicene Creed standardizes the Holy Trinity, but Jiang treats it as an inconsistent formula that must be memorized because questioning it risks heresy.
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Byzantine wealth and defensible Constantinople let Justinian expand and enforce the Holy Trinity, but imperial peak quickly produces decline.
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The Holy Trinity becomes psychologically destabilizing once the Church is removed, because the believer must directly grasp an abstraction that cannot be touched or understood by ordinary cognition.
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Removing the Church makes the believer personally responsible for grasping the Holy Trinity, which Jiang says is impossible and therefore anxiety-producing.
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Jiang reads Dante's final secret as the claim that humans are in God and God is in humans, turning the Trinity from an exclusionary equation into a story humans can keep writing.
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Jiang says Dante slowly assembles the vision into the Holy Trinity: three circles that are separate but the same.
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"...even more problematic than these three, okay? And it's called the Holy Trinity. So let's go over the Holy Trinity. What the Holy Trinity..."
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"...sense whatsoever. The only solution to this problem is, that this Holy Trinity is both nothing and everything at the same time. It becomes..."
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"...years. Okay? The Council of Nicaea is where they make the Holy Trinity the official doctrine of the Catholic Church. Even today, guys, if..."
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"We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord..."
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"All right. So, what this does is establish the idea that Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit are separate, but they are one and..."
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"...different groups, okay? So, after the Council of Nicaea announces the Holy Trinity, the Catholic Church is going to have a conflict. There's still..."
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"...beginning, there's a lot of resistance to the idea of the Holy Trinity. The Byzantine Empire must fight these wars to enforce it, okay?..."
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"...as we discussed in previous classes, is the idea of the Holy Trinity. The idea of the Holy Trinity is that Jesus, God, and..."
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"...this is something, the only way that we can understand the Holy Trinity is to believe that it is both nothing and everything. And..."
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"...church? Now you have to grasp, try to grasp what the Holy Trinity is. And again, remember, one of the main ideas of the..."
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"...God. Okay. The Council of Nicaea established the idea of the Holy Trinity, which is that God, Jesus and Holy Spirit are co -equal...."
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"...secret, and it breaks apart the idea of the Holy Spirit. Trinity remember the idea of the Holy Trinity is that it's an equation..."
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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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The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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Byzantium survives for a thousand years because it solves Rome's political problem.
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The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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