Jiang uses cognitive dissonance to explain how Church readers could treat Dante as pious on the surface while missing or tolerating his deeper anti-Church implications.
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"Right, so, that's a great question. In psychology, there's a phrase called cognitive dissonance. Right? So, you read divine comedy, and you're a Catholic..."
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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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