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Jiang presents Dante's final state as rapt, motionless joy before total interconnectedness, with the experience remaining more powerful than centuries of ordinary memory.
""'Oh, grace abounding through which I presume "'to set my eyes on the eternal light, "'so long as I spend all my sight on..."
"...above. And this has to do with the idea of the interconnectedness of this universe. And what this means basically is that the universe..."
"...put your millions of dollars so um so there's much more interconnectedness between China and the West than people um believe or or or..."
"...Asha and Jewish right this is Asha moving towards the the interconnectedness of all things the Harmony of all things the Jewish is the..."
"...you must connect with someone else. And because of that idea, interconnectedness, it puts a restraint on your reason. But if you're capable of..."
"...acted out rituals. And therefore there was an intimacy, concreteness and interconnectedness to paganism. That made us feel happy and good. Okay? It made..."
"...crafts on other things, like for example, love of each other, interconnectedness. Right? If you are a mother who loves your child, guess what?..."
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante restores imagination against empire, reveals a universe held together by divine light, and ends by making humanity necessary to God's own self-knowledge.
Jiang's through-line is that American decline will not end in a peaceful handoff to China or Russia.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Jesus lecture: Christianity begins as a pile of impossible doctrines, the historical Jesus is thinner and stranger, the Gospel of Thomas makes him a poet-prophet of the divine spark,...
The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
The easy story says modernity begins in Europe after a medieval interruption.
Christianity wins twice in this lecture: first as a Roman-compatible institution, then as a strange formula that trains people to treat symbols as reality.
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