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He argues that to diverge from the Nicene Creed, adjust it, or question it is heresy because the believer is supposed to recite the formula rather than reinterpret it.
A student argues that Dante appears inconsistent because he praises imagination and inward searching but answers Peter's question by reciting authoritative doctrine.
Jiang says the class should treat Paul's absence from the scene as suspicious because Dante appears to be reciting doctrine only in order to revise its meaning.
Communal recitation matters because writing should be tested against the feelings and reactions of others, unlike solitary modern writing.
"um no like like what is the official definition of god at this time in history by the catholic church no no no no..."
"this while dante is talking about imagination intuition and importance of looking into himself and he criticized the traditional mode of theological learning which..."
"he knows the Almighty and that one more time we're not to be found and cannot become pardoned by the power of god and..."
"in a symposium on love that's what they do for fun guys this is a trial of socrates um so if there's if if..."
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,...
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...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Homer as the big bang of Greek civilization: empire turns writing into control, the polis turns speech into civic training, and the Iliad turns war into the...
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