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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "a selfless act of love is what elevates you to paradise not the will not the desire but the action itself that's driven by..."
Jiang's shorthand for the way Divine Comedy can place non-Christians in heaven when their acts embody a nobility or love that exceeds the formal salvation rule.
Jiang uses the daughter to argue that there are pagans in paradise and that this is one of Divine Comedy's subversive pressures against the simple rule that only Christians are saved.
"a selfless act of love is what elevates you to paradise not the will not the desire but the action itself that's driven by..."
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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