Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 UM
Summary of text [comment] pages 84 and 85
[When words3H(2 are twisted by sin, bondage2(1H)) withers the heart2.
My heart fixates on the bondage that will kill me2H1H)).]
04/9/19
04/8/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 UL
Summary of text [comment] pages 84 and 85
[Law enters through thought3V(2 then influences deeds2(1V)).
Sin enters through words3H(2 then produces bondage2(1H).]
04/5/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 UK
Summary of text [comment] pages 84 and 85
[A second co-opposition composes the vertical axis.
This is: Thought3V(2 and deed2(1V).
This vertical co-opposition intersects the horizontal co-oppositions of either responsibility3H(2 & freedom2(1H)) or words3H(2 & bondage2(1H)).
My heart2 is the single actuality that arises from the congruence of two co-oppositions.]
04/4/19
04/3/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 UI
[Responsibility tends to exclude the normal context belonging to words, and visa versa.]
04/2/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 UH
[Freedom and bondage are exclusively opposed even though they are both exercises of the heart2(1H).
What does this imply?
Since exclusion is a property of the realm of normal context, each of these terms co-oppose an independent normal context.
Freedom2(1H)) co-opposes responsibility3H(2.
Bondage2(1H)) co-opposes words3H(2.]
04/1/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 UG
Summary of text [comment] pages 84 and 85
Schoonenberg joins the term “heart” with the terms “free” and “bondage”. The heart may be free or in bondage to sin, law or death.
03/29/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 UF
Summary of text [comment] pages 84 and 85
[Ah, what about the prior models?
Free will is a term that belongs to both the intersections of ‘my heart2’ and ‘what is good and what is bad2’.
Free will associates to the potentials of each vertical axis, something that I may choose1V and conscience1V.
Similarly, free choice belongs to the single actuality of ‘my heart’2 and what is good and what is bad2.]
03/28/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 UE
[What does this observation imply?
Did the word “free” shift within a changing symbolic order?]
03/27/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 UD
Is there a difference between the terms free will and free choice?
Augustine wrote of a free will in contrast to a slave will, even though both retained free choice.
Anselm contrasted simple choice (arbitrium) and Christian liberty (libertas). This does not quite fit Augustine’s opposition of free and slave wills.