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Jiang says the deepest comfort of preordination is learning that exile is not your fault, which removes the core source of trauma.
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Preordination
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Okay. All right. Okay. Let's be clear. Okay? Dante is writing this not to console himself. Okay? But to give us hope. Does that..."
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Jiang says the Catholic version of history treats the Catholic Church as the end point of history, heaven on earth, with prior world events understood as preordained steps leading toward it.
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"Okay. All right. Okay. Let's be clear. Okay? Dante is writing this not to console himself. Okay? But to give us hope. Does that..."
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"I'm going to do before we read Dante is I'm going to introduce the Catholic version of history. Okay? So, the end point of..."
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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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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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