The classroom briefly confirms that ordinary people in Dante's world were not simply reading scripture directly for themselves.
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Laity
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Well, at the time, most people didn't even read the Bible. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Because of the, it wasn't Latin, so like, that was..."
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"Well, at the time, most people didn't even read the Bible. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Because of the, it wasn't Latin, so like, that was..."
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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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