Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 JN
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[Back to Schoonenberg’s text.]
We exercise our freedom in serving either God or Satan.
02/26/18
Category Archives: Our current Lebenswelt is not the Lebenswelt that we evolved in
Human psychology evolved under in the social milieu of constrained complexity. Currently, humans live in unconstrained complexity. What has this done to our minds? These topics are addressed in various parts of An Archaeology of the Fall, particularly in chapters 8C and 11B.
12/27/17
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 HX
[A recommended electronic text in regards to the Progressive word-based mind:
James Ostrowski, Progressivism: A Primer on the Idea Destroying America, 2014, Buffalo, New York: Cazenovia Books, first edition, ISBN 978-0974253-87]
09/26/17
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 FL
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[Schoonenberg moved to another facet of virtue and sin.]
According to Paul, sin rules in “man” and over “man” through concupiscence.
Schoonenberg quoted Paul’s Letter to the Romans 7:17. His sinful deeds “are not done by I, but by the sin that dwells in me.”
Paul is in bondage to a sinful attitude that renders him powerlessness.]
08/1/17
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 DX
[So the question becomes: How do I redeem the spiritual spark that makes up my true self?
Redemption is promised through secret knowledge (gnosis) that guides the ascent of the soul.]
07/31/17
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 DW
Summary of text [comment] page 82
[Does the first singularity confirm Augustine’s social construction of Original Sin?
So far, I noted, in blogs on Anthony Zimmerman’s work, that Augustine’s paradigm looks like the myth of the descent of the soul.
Augustine was once a Manichaean philosopher.
In the Manichaean view, babies are evil.
Why?
They are material.
The incorruptible and good spirit that animates each baby collects corruptible and evil material in its descent.
The details about how this occurs are never quite clear. But, everyone knows the punchline: Babies are eternal spiritual sparks trapped in corruptible mortal flesh.]
07/28/17
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 DV
Summary of text [comment] page 82
[Our current Lebenswelt is not the Lebenswelt we evolved in.
The transition from intuitive reference to projected reference was the first singularity experienced by our species.
To me, this singularity is captured in those early stories of Genesis.
Indeed, all ancient written mythologies of southwest Asia testify to the first singularity.]
07/27/17
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 DU
[The materialist ideologies of the Cold Battle (1945-1989 AD; 7745-7789 U0’) desired to control this fundament of civilization.
However, if “property” cannot be smelled, tasted, touched, seen or heard, then what on earth is it?]
07/26/17
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 DT
Summary of text [comment] page 82
[If Rousseau is correct, then the word “property” is a socially constructed term that allows the sensible construction of civilized economic and political systems.
If this coagulation of social and sensible construction did not have surviving power, then it would not exist today.
Civilization, an expression of unconstrained complexity, relies on the social construction of “property”. We project the referent “property” into our experience of the word “civilization”.]
07/25/17
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 DS
[Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778 AD; 7512-7578 U0’) in his second discourse, proposes that civilization is founded on the idea of property.
The title of that discourse, by the way, is Discourse on the Origins and Foundations of Inequality.
Does that title sound vaguely familiar?]
07/21/17
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 DQ
[The civilizational environment of Modernism supports additional developments, including an expansion of knowledge in the realm of actuality.
This includes knowledge of our evolutionary history.
Today, 50 years after Schoonenberg published, the Story of the Fall walks out of the Modernist crypt of works labeled as “mythology”.
The Story of the Fall is a fairy tale trace of a Real and recent change in the human Lebenswelt.
Speech-alone talk replaced hand-speech talk. This apparently small alteration in the way we talk potentiated unconstrained social complexity.]