01/18/19

Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 SH

[The thought experiment3H or the mirror of the world3H brings the potential in me1H into relation to something situating the potential in me2H plus my choosing2V.

I, seat of choice3V, brings the potential in something (that I may choose)1V into relation to something situating the potential in me2H plus my choosing2V.

My heart2 is the single actuality constituted by two actualities of ‘something situating the potential in me 2H‘ plus ‘my choosing2V‘.]

01/17/19

Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 SG

[The thought experiment where ‘I choose something’ produces three models.

One is an interscope.

The other two are intersections.

Only one version of the intersections is considered. In this model, the interscope’s situation level became the vertical nested form. The interscope’s content level became the horizontal axis.]

01/11/19

Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 SC

Summary of text [comment] pages 83 and 84

[The thought experiment produced two models.

One of these models consisted of two interscoping nested forms, corresponding to content and situation. A third level, perspective, always available and influential, is never mentioned.

This arrangement indicates sensible construction, as opposed to social construction.

Man and Sin: A Theological View was originally published in 1962. The author was Dutch Jesuit theologian. He mimicked the contemporary social sciences by trying to be sensical. Sensical material is situated by sensible construction.

The irony of sensible construction is that it does not challenge the perspective level.]

01/10/19

Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 SB

Summary of text [comment] pages 83 and 84

Note Schoonenberg’s comment: In our freedom, we serve God or Satan.

[For the past few months, my blogs riffed off of page 83.

The thought experiment where I choose ‘something’ served as a tool for investigating Schoonenberg’s passage on responsibility and freedom.

Redemption is freely choosing to be responsible.]