Summary of text [comment] pages 67 and 68

Schoonenberg emphasized that I must not focus on ‘sin as a thing or a state of things’, as if ‘someone could hold this thing or let it go and not be changed’. Life in covenant (in personal communion with God) has been presented to us in our freedom. I may respond to God’s invitation by accepting in love, faith and hope.

[I see my true self only when I recognize myself as an image of God.

When I refuse that invitation, I sense the limitations in my potential. I become fearful. I fixate on the machinations of a spontaneous order. There, I find multitudes of competing normal contexts in which ‘I can recognize myself’. Each normal context tells me about the limited potential from which I emerge. Each normal context offers ‘some excuse or program that promises to alleviate my existential anxieties’.

Thus, in America, Progressives fixate on my lack of self-esteem. They want to cure my ‘lack of self-esteem’ through ‘objects that bring me into organization’.

I become a slave to utopia.]