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Another student says the human task is to desire God, know him, and become more like him.
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Know God
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"to come here okay anyone else yeah i think in the last few lines he kind of says that we want to desire him..."
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"...in you, and if one has my faith, can he not know God's name? And just as he instilled, you then instilled with your..."
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"...because what's the Divine Comedy yes go ahead well um you know God"
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"...without Dante. Okay? It was Dante who basically said, virtually to know God, virtually to discover the truth, we must embrace all possible religions,..."
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"...So, if Dante is to see God, if Dante is to know God, he can't do it with his eyes. The vision doesn't matter,..."
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"...his imagination? His poetry. That is what will enable him to know God. And allow God to know itself. ''And I, who never burn..."
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"...forest and build a temple with our bare hands. Okay? I know God was the one who created the forest, but God willed us..."
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"...by faith. This creates anxiety, right? Because if you don't really know God because of the Holy Trinity, how do you know you really..."
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"...Jesus taught you the light is within you, and therefore you know God. You just trust yourself, and that's good. And then what Paul..."
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"...where the entire Western, Western hemisphere is America's divine, right? You know, God gave the Western hemisphere to, uh, America and that's just manifest...."
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"...do you show your true faith in God. How do you know God truly loves you through material acquisition. Through saving money and listen,..."
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"...person whether or not you love God and how do you know God loves you think about your mother right you know your mother..."
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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A source-grounded reading of Dante's Paradise as a school for intuition: heaven is not a ranked hotel but a measure of receptivity, vows test free will beyond institutional obedience, memory may belong to the...
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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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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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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.
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The conspiracy story is false as history and true as prediction.
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Jesus arrives as a poor prophet of the inner spark; Paul turns that spark into belief, obedience, ritual, hierarchy, and a machine that can outlive Rome.
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