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.]
11/1/19
Category Archives: The science of Original Sin
What about this vision of Original Sin as a reification of our own interpretations of the ‘what is real’. Once reified, a “serpent” inspires us to actions that produce results that differ from expectations (i.e. what is defined to be ‘real’). How do we deal with those results? Examples? And how does this picture resonate with traditional interpretations of these chapters of Genesis. This topic is addressed in chapters 11,12 and 13.
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).]
09/26/19
09/17/19
09/4/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 YM
Summary of text [comment] pages 87 and 88
Grace maintains balance in the heart.
As long as the individual does not admit grace with “his” free choice, thus allowing the Holy Spirit to increase “his” Christian Liberty, the sinner clings to “his” own sinful choices, imprisoning “himself” in the houses of sin, law and death.
He falls into [words and] bondage.
09/3/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 YL
Summary of text [comment] pages 87 and 88
[On one hand, the realm of actuality does not like contradictions.
It obeys the laws of non-contradiction.
On the other hand, if there is a contradiction, then there is actuality.
This is why the person knows “he” has a heart2 only when it is broken (filled with contradictions).]
08/30/19
08/29/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 YJ
Summary of text [comment] pages 87 and 88
[For the thought experiment where ‘I choose something’, the interscope does not have a heart.
The intersection has a heart and that heart is broken. My heart2 is the single actuality containing my choice2V and something that situates my potential2H.
The imposition of a psychological experiment generates contradictions within these two actualities.]
08/27/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 YH
[When can a researcher know whether the interscope or intersection applies to the conditions of the survey?]
08/26/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 YG
Summary of text [comment] pages 87 and 88
[What about surveys where the intersection applies?
What about surveys where ‘the something that I may choose1V’ does not correspond to ‘the something that emerges from and situates me2H’?]