Glossary
Term or model used in this packet's account of Paul, Christianity, Roman power, or church doctrine.
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pride
Term or model used in this packet's account of Paul, Christianity, Roman power, or church doctrine.
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Glossary
In Jiang's reading of Augustine, the movement away from God toward selfhood, ambition, pleasure, and one's own will.
diagnosis
Jiang says Augustine reverses Jesus by saying the inner spark is not divine but satanic pride.
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The doctrine of original sin teaches that humans are born evil and redeemed only through Christ and church authority.
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Student questions clarify that pride is permitted only if the Pope or church authority defines it as obedience to God.
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Augustine's model makes human pride, self-love, love of others, imagination, and intuition suspect because humans are created from nothing and can fall like Satan.
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Jiang says Augustine's City of God starts the Dark Ages because it teaches that human nature must be fought, pride is the ego's reach toward Godhood, and love cannot be trusted.
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Jiang says Roman memory honors Lucretia's suicide as the act that gives birth to the Roman Republic, but Augustine reframes it as shame, pride, and ego.
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Jiang reads Augustine's Adam and Eve as saying they were not tricked by the serpent and not simply curious; they were already evil because their pride made them want to become God.
definition
He defines pride in Augustine's logic as leaving God and becoming more of oneself; obedience moves toward God, selfhood moves toward sin.
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"Okay, so we are, we exist to obey God. Alright? Jesus taught us that we exist in order to be creative, in order to..."
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"So if the Pope tells you to take pride in being a part of the Church, you can't be, like, you are allowed?"
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"...Jesus to believe that is to pursue our divine spark, but pride is a thing that we cannot avoid, right?"
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"Could anything but pride happen at the start of the evil will? Why did we disobey God? Why did we eat that fruit? Because..."
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"...we live in today. This world is evil because of our pride, because of our self -love, because of love for others. But the..."
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"In my mouth, it was as sweet as honey. Okay? So this is the idea of the upper level tradition. What Dante will do..."
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"Second is, now could anything but pride have been the start of the evil will? And the idea here is, if left to our..."
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"...the serpent they were not curious they were just evil for pride is the start of every kind of sin and what is pride..."
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"...rather than him in himself he ought to have found dissatisfaction pride okay pride makes us happy it makes us ambitious but it will..."
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"Lucretia. Remember who Lucretia is. Lucretia, we discussed Lucretia when we discussed the history of the Roman Republic. At first, Rome was a monarchy,..."
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"...good of Rome, but for her own vanity, for her own pride, for the fact that she lost faith. She was embarrassed. She didn't..."
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"happen why did Adam and Eve go to heaven and why did they go to hell and why did they go to and Eve..."
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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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The Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings.
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A source-grounded reading of Augustine as empire's theologian: the Church escapes history, curiosity becomes sin, love becomes disease, passivity becomes goodness, and Arabia appears as the next place where fugitives from authority will prepare...
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Greek civilization begins as a reversal: chaos, illiteracy, and poverty force the polis, the alphabet, and Homer, until poetry teaches a new human being how to see, feel, and think.
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