Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 BAI
Summary of text [comment] page 88
[Where does reason come in?
Reason may alter I, seat of choice3V, in relation to the possibilities underlying my choice1V.]
11/11/19
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.
11/8/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 BAH
Summary of text [comment] page 88
[The co-opposition of thoughts3V(2 and deeds2(1V) is not isolated from responsibility3H(2 and freeedom2(1H).
Grace enters through ‘the mirror of the world3H’ or through ‘the intuitions of my blood and bones1H’. It produces new contradictions that alter the entire intersection.]
11/7/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 BAG
[This resonates with ‘I, seat of sight3V’ discerning new ‘possibilities inherent in the something that scatters light1V’.
The horizontal relation alters the single actuality shared with the vertical relation.]
11/6/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 BAF
Summary of text [comment] page 88
[The vertical axis is not unaffected.
The vertical axis intersects with the horizontal in the single actuality containing ‘my choice2V and something2H’.
The single actuality of ‘my heart2’ parallels ‘what I see2’.
‘I, seat of choice3V’, encounters new ‘possibilities inherent in something that I may choose1V’.]
11/5/19
11/4/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 BAD
Summary of text [comment] page 88
[Or maybe, grace can directly influence the potential inherent in me.
The original Old Testament notion of the ‘flesh’ as opposed to the ‘blood and bones’ reminds me of this. The flesh may yearn for what is reflected in the mirror of the world. That yearning yields bondage.
But the blood and bones yearn for God. Their yearning is for freedom. They yearn for the warmth of the divine light. They yearn to stand before the Lord.]
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.]