Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 BAE
11/5/19
Category Archives: Defining Religion
11/1/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 BAC
[By changing the illumination of ‘the mirror of the world3H’, grace changes the potential in me1H.
Grace illuminates and draws something out of me1H that never seemed possible before.]
10/31/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 BAB
[Is grace to be found in the mirror of the world3H?
Grace increases the capacity of responsibility3H(2H and, through the co-opposition, the opportunities for freedom2H(1H).
Grace decreases the incapacities generated by words3H(2H and, through the co-opposition, the burdens of bondage2H(1H).]
10/30/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 BAA
Summary of text [comment] page 88
[At this point, I am ready to imagine how grace fits into the intersecting nested forms of the thought experiment where ‘I choose something’.
I am tempted to envision the gift of the Holy Spirit as indwelling in thirdness on the horizontal scale, ‘the thought experiment3H’.
The Holy Spirit parallels ‘the source and nature of the light3H’.]
10/29/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 ZZ
[Sovereign power, in the attempt to contextualize itself, reduces other possibilities.
In doing this, sovereign power increases risk.
Who cares if people appear different when they all think the same?
Well, the person who does not think the same cares.
The person who does not think the same faces increased risk.
Thinkmulticulturalism is thinkconformity.]
10/28/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 ZY
[This example points to a strange aspect of the realm of possibility.
The monadic realm includes the possibility of no other possibilities.
This option suggests a mode of operation of sovereign power.
Sovereign power, in the attempt to contextualize itself, reduces other possibilities.]
10/18/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 ZS
Summary of text [comment] page 88
[A mirror of the world3 taps into the other triadic relations found in An Archaeology of the Fall and How to Define the Word ‘Religion’. These include:
‘the system3’ of ‘a system3 of differences1’
a symbolic order3
an animating prinicple3
a mediator3
a normal context3
lawessential3
thinkgroup_or_divine3]
09/17/19
09/16/19
07/31/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 XP
Summary of text [comment] pages 86 and 87
[Let me return to the interscope of the thought experiment of ‘I choose something’.
I, seat of choice3b, elevates and embodies the actuality of my choice2b, which, in turn, emerges from and situates the potentials inherent in something1b.
The possibilities inherent in me1a underlie something2a, which is then situated as a potential.
What is the normal context for something2a?
A thought experiment3a.]