03/7/19

Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 TP

Summary of text [comment] pages 83 and 84

[I compare the intersecting forms of the thought experiment where I choose ‘something’ and the message underlying the word “religion”.

I find that something that I may choose1V parallels consciencespecified1V.

I feel that I should label this parallel: Free will.

Perhaps the word “parallels” is insufficient.

How about complements or resonates with?]

01/23/19

Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 SK

[The thought experiment where ‘I choose ‘something’ serves as a categorical tool for investigating Schoonenberg’s passage on responsibility and freedom.

What Schoonenberg expressed, the text itself, stands within the shell of Modernism.

What Schoonenberg was required to express as a Jesuit theologian included the husk of pre-modern Scholasticism.

Perhaps, only by dying in the cryptotheology of Modernism (with its complete fixation on the realm of actuality) and by cracking the coat of pre-modern Scholasticism (with its reliance on signs, without knowing ‘what signs are’), could this text germinate into an exercise in postmodern Scholasticism.]

01/2/19

Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 RV

Summary of text [comment] pages 83 and 84

[Welfare and other transfer payments are particularly deceptive.

When does getting something for free (one of the ways that the government attains its objectsorganization) sound like an “responsibility”?

Yet, it imposes the unavoidable: The recipient must vote for the Party of Larger Government.

In order to do that, the recipient justifies “himself” through state propaganda.]