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Earthly battles over rule, office, and faction that Jiang says the church should stand outside but instead becomes entangled in after Charlemagne.
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temporal politics
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Key Notes
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Jiang says Augustine's move effectively separates church and state, because the church should care about salvation rather than about which earthly ruler holds power.
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Jiang says Dante's point through Justinian is that the church should not be involved in temporal politics or wars over the legacy of Rome, because those struggles corrupt Christian teaching.
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"taught that rome is heaven on earth it's where the catholic church is so why would god not protect rome and so at this..."
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"...need the church so now the church becomes embedded in temple politics and this is what led church are embedded in temple politics and..."
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"The Holy Roman Empire is fighting to figure out who will be pope. That's not a temporal issue, that's not a worldly issue. The..."
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"...of the church okay the church should not be involved in temporal politics we should not be fighting uh for the legacy of rome"
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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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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