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The dominant 1321 explanation Jiang gives for Christ's death: God pays Satan with his son in order to free enslaved humanity, but Christ's divinity defeats hell through resurrection.
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ransom theory
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Glossary
Medieval explanation Jiang rejects: Jesus dies as payment to Satan to release human slaves.
Glossary
Origen's explanation, as Jiang presents it, that Christ's death ransoms humanity from Satan and transfers human bondage to God.
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Jiang says the dominant explanation in Dante's time for Jesus's death was the ransom theory: humanity became enslaved to Satan after the Fall, and God offers his son as ransom, with Christ's divinity allowing resurrection and escape from hell.
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Jiang contrasts the ransom theory with the modern simplified explanation that Jesus died to redeem humanity from sin, arguing that the older theory is the one Dante is actually responding to.
diagnosis
Jiang rejects ransom theory because it makes Jesus buy humans from Satan only to turn them into slaves of Jesus.
definition
Origen's ransom theory says humanity became Satan's property after the Fall and God redeemed humans by offering his own life, tricking Satan because God cannot truly be killed.
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"...okay back then the most popular explanation is something called the ransom theory the ransom theory okay and it goes like this when who..."
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"...redeemed us from our sins so this is the most popular theory at this time and dante will respond to this theory uh yes"
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"important is that people learn for themselves eventually you'll figure out being a slave sucks you know what it may seem as though watching..."
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"...die okay does that make sense so this is called a ransom theory and this is how during danny's time most people understood why..."
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"we must worship jesus and danny's like no no no that can't possibly be right okay god would not come to free us so..."
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"...Trinity. By the name Origen, his explanation is something called the Ransom Theory. All right? And the theory goes like this. When we were..."
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"...blueprint for the Catholic Church. All right? This idea of the Ransom Theory. All right."
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"...the original sin, and then Origen suggested the idea of the ransom theory. Okay? God had to redeem us, ransom us, from Satan. Now,..."
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