The term Jiang uses to track Dante's modification of faith from unseen evidence to the underlying ground on which hope and inference rest.
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substance
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Jiang proposes that Paul treats faith as passive belief in an already existing divine plan, whereas Dante treats faith as the underlying substance that moves the universe.
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"...clear to you why he has first placed faith among the substances and then defines it as an evidence i next the deep things..."
"an evidence okay all right okay so again he repeats paul and now he's gonna make adjustments to paul right so faith for paul..."
"...but what Donnie is saying is that faith is the underlying substance of the universe and it's what moves the universe and it's from..."
"is what faith is is our imagination and it's the imagination that's the animating force of the universe so we've gotten from Paul which..."
"...with you set Rome upon the righteous road faith is the substance of the things we hope for and it's the evidence of things..."
"...faith what does he say faith faith yeah faith is a substance of the things we hope for and it's evidence of things not..."
"...is founded and thus it is that faith is called a substance and it is from this faith that we must reason deducing what..."
"...is founded and thus it is that faith is called a substance and it is from this faith that we must reason deducing what..."
"own music i saw that substance sing that spirit flame above whom double lights were twined and he and his companions moved within their..."
"...mind misguides you into emptiness what you are seeing are true substances placed here because"
"...''into one single volume. ''What in the universe seems separate, scattered? ''Substance, accidents, and dispositions ''as they conjoin in such a way ''that what..."
"...we get sunlight and water and God gives us everything, our substances and what we need, if we are now reliant upon AI for"
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