11/6/17

Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 GO

Summary of text [comment] page 83

[The single actuality composing the intersection of human action and human thought, for the message underlying religion, is what is good and what is bad.

The single actuality composing the intersection of recognition and participation is the state of grace or the state of self-destruction.

My heart is the single actuality corresponding to the entanglement of ‘my choice (revealing my values)2V’ and ‘something (revealing my desire)2H.]

07/19/17

Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 DO

[Three ideals substitute for a divine Trinity, allowing sovereign power to contextualize itself as the anthropological actuality in objectrelation.

Each post-religious enlightenment godhead calls for and justifies the exercise of sovereign power, according to its manifestation of the three ideals.

The past 370 years continue the so-called Wars of Religion.

The Peace of Westphalia (in 1648 AD) is the starting point.

Post-religionist enlightenment godheads are conjured.

Then they battle among one another.]