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Virgil tells the wounded tree that Dante hurt it only because the scene was too incredible to believe without physical proof.
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Jiang frames Peter's question as a demand for the source of faith and for the evidence that proves God or the Holy Spirit must exist.
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Jiang pushes the class toward the claim that Dante must live the truth of God's love and that the Divine Comedy itself is the medium that proves it.
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A student raises the problem of whether direct vision of angels and other deep things would weaken the pilgrim Dante's faith by replacing belief with proof.
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Jiang reframes the issue as a test of what love truly asks for: even if the demand becomes legal success rather than robbery, the class still has to ask whether proving love through instrumental achievement is the right response.
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A live student answer proposes that Jesus dies and resurrects in order to prove he is truly divine, and Jiang says some denominations in fact teach the crucifixion-resurrection this way.
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"As from a sapling log that catches fire along one of its ends, while at the other it drips and hisses with escaping vapor,..."
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"So, Peter asks him a question, which is like, faith is inside of you, but where does it come from? How do you have..."
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"okay so let's just say that Dante opens University and says and this University I'm going to teach you to be not afraid of..."
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"write the Divine Comedy to channel himself as the example okay yes okay the Divine Comedy is what"
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"proves it do you understand because what's the Divine Comedy yes go ahead well um you know God"
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"...the story's faith therefore diminished because he has seen and has proof of these things because he's no longer believing them on merit of..."
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"proper response so you're saying my response should be you know what um i'll go rob a bank and buy some jewelry is like..."
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"okay okay all right all right okay so so this is really key to understanding donnie okay so my wife says to me if..."
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"cure himself just because he wants to show that he's not he's really uh the the son of god because some people keep doubt..."
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"yeah and certain certain denominations teach this yes to prove that he is truly divine"
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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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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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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