Glossary
Church investigation and coercion system for finding dissenters and forcing recantation.
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Inquisition
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diagnosis
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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The Catholic Church responds to inner divine-spark movements by defining the spark as demonic, sending crusaders against believers, and creating the Inquisition to educate or punish dissent.
historical-model
The Church answers Cathar resistance with Dominicans and the Inquisition, an interrogation society that identifies dissent and burns those who refuse recantation.
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Galileo's Dialogue became explosive because he mocked his enemies and placed Pope Urban VIII's arguments in the mouth of Simplicitus, making a banned book into a sensation.
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The Dominican Order and Medieval Inquisition are described as replacing indiscriminate crusade violence with written testimony, interrogation, and identification of specific heretics.
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The Inquisition is modeled as a division of clerical judgment over the soul and secular power over the body, with interrogation used to find truth without direct church bloodshed.
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Inquisition precision is described as more effective than indiscriminate crusade violence because it identifies a minority, punishes them publicly, and makes resistance feel futile.
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Jiang says some grand inquisitors were themselves crypto-Jews and interprets that as part of a long historical logic in which elite continuity matters more than the suffering of the masses.
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"the Franciscan order okay oh wait sorry um something that I've got to mention is that um the reason so for um St Thomas..."
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"...funny, but a lot of the people involved in the Spanish Inquisition, the Grand Inquisitors, were crypto Jews."
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"Yeah. What's the point of that? Why kick out their own people?"
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"I mean, it's all part of God's plan, right? I mean, the people are being molded, they're being tested. I mean, like, it's, what..."
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"...spark. And then they set up a secret police, called the Inquisition, in order to search for those who oppose the Catholic Church, okay?..."
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"...person, because you don't know better. So the idea of the Inquisition is to educate you in the truth, which is the divine spark..."
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"So as you can see, what's really important to understand is the crusade against Cathars is not just a religious crusade. It's also one..."
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"...it was a complete disaster. It was a disastrous meeting, the Inquisition told him to shut up, okay? You can write anything you want..."
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"...the Eighth was really angry, and so he called for the Inquisition, okay? So Galileo was halt before the Inquisition, and Galileo now had..."
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"...important for us to remember is, these people who joined the Inquisition, the Crusade, they do so out of the pureness, the goodness of..."
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"...Crusades, right? So this is part of something called the Medieval Inquisition, and this is something that will repeat itself during the Spanish Inquisition..."
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"...a heretic or unorthodox. All right? So, what's happening during the Inquisition, okay? So the Inquisition is trying to figure out the truth, okay,..."
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