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Jiang says this free-will-first structure contradicts mainstream church theology and would have been revolutionary around the year 1300.
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Year 1300
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He says that in the year 1300 a priest would likely answer faith questions by accusing the questioner of speaking for Satan, which is why Dante staging such inquiry in heaven is so radical.
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He says that near the year 1300 this kind of reasoning about faith would count as revolutionary, especially because Dante stages it in heaven through Peter rather than in a university disputation.
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"Yes? Would this kind of be in contradiction to people like Anselm at the time who were really interested in describing how God was..."
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"...its time. It's not so radical for us. But for the year 1300, this is revolutionary idea. Like God is pure love. Pure love..."
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"Let's appreciate what's going on, okay? In the year 1300, if you go to your priest and say to him, how do we know..."
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"Yeah, maybe the Satan has taken control of you, right? Maybe you're speaking for Satan. That's literally what they would say to you. Right?..."
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"...to the Catholic Church, at this time in history, by the year 1300?"
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"...real virgil right and it's absurd because donnie lived around the year 1300 and virgil lived the year about like you know during the..."
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"Napoleon. Who else? Hitler. Hitler. Okay, guys, guys, this is year 1300, okay? So let's not go too far. They don't even know who..."
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"...talking about is a prophecy, okay? So this is, again, the year 1300. Dante will finish this in 1321, but he's right in the..."
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"...imagination, right? Okay. Okay, all right. So let's go to the year 1300, okay? And you are a Catholic believer. What do the Church..."
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"...Why is it that we're given bodies? And again, in the year 1300, the Catholic Church teaches you that we have bodies because we..."
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"...this. Why are you shocked by this? I'm talking about the year 1300, okay? Why would you be shocked by this, yes? Because they're..."
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"...like 20 years afterwards, okay? So he met God in the year 1300 during the Easter weekend. Now, 20 years later, he is now..."
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