Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) on hold
The time has come for a sabbatical. 2020 is it. Will post various thoughts and curiosities for the next year. Passing thoughts. What a Qurious year on the horizon. Enjoy the show.
11/14/19
11/13/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 BAK
Summary of text [comment] page 88
[I, seat of choice3V practices reason.
The mirror of the word3H asks for an ‘act of faith2H’.
The mirror of the world3H always says: “Believe that I am your normal context.”]
11/12/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 BAJ
[Reason itself does not require grace. Or does it?
Since I, seat of choice3V, contextualizes the heart2, and since the heart is contextualized by the mirror of the world3H, then reason may (inadvertently) open the person to the influence of grace through the horizontal normal context.
Reason may change the heart2 just enough that the person’s intuition1H may feel grace-filled inspiration.]
11/11/19
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.]
11/8/19
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.]