Jiang says the prior account of Jesus, crucifixion, and Jewish punishment was not his own truth claim but a simplified presentation of official Catholic teaching that Justinian will repeat in the text.
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Jiang concedes that free will is involved, then explicitly says he is not defending the doctrine's truth but reconstructing what people and the Church believed in Dante's period so the class can interpret Dante's choices.
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"like the the history you just presented earlier about jesus's murder so you speak was it meant to be factual or was it meant..."
"right i'm not i'm not making a comment if this is true or false i'm just saying this is what the catholic church teaches..."
"yeah that that that's right so we we have our free will chose to become slaves to satan doesn't make sense because when we..."
"to receive the gift of our free will okay so so look i'm not arguing about theology okay i'm not arguing about these ideas..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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