Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 LL
[The decline of the Roman Empire may have been tempered by the multiplication of less politically minded Christians.]
05/7/18
Category Archives: Our current Lebenswelt
05/4/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 LK
[Consider histories of Franklin Roosevelt written in the 20th century (7700s U0’).
Not one assessed the economic consequences of Roosevelt’s tragic and capricious presidential leadership.
The Federal Reserve Board caused the Great Depression.
Roosevelt did nothing to stop their madness.
He enhance the Great Depression by supplementing economic with political uncertainty.
Why did America not fall into revolution?
The common folk were still Christian.]
05/3/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 LJ
[Modern intellectuals rarely correlate the political rhetoric (words) with economic consequences (bondage).
Indeed, it seems that their job is to produce the words that put the common folk into bondage.]
05/2/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 LI
[Why did modern historians believe the rhetoric of the Pagan Romans?
Traditional pagan Romans blamed Christianity for their decline.
Naive and self-absorbed modern intellectuals took their words at face value.]
04/23/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 LB
[Before his conversion, Paul was not so different from other members of the Jewish elite. He yearned for recognition, not for material goods.
What type of recognition?
Paul wanted to be recognized as more righteous than his peers.
He was not covetous, like those other grasping elites.
Oh yes, he was better.
He enforced the Law.]
04/16/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 KW
[Obligations went from responsibilities to words.
The words of the Law put the majority in bondage.
Common folk (the so-called “deplorables”) were required to meet traditional family and tribal obligations.
They were never adequate when it came to ritual purity. They were good people, but they were cast as losers
All they could hope for was to avoid accusations of thinkanti-object, that is, rumors that would ruin one’s life and relations.
Does that sound vaguely familiar for today’s (2017) America?]
02/26/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 JN
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[Back to Schoonenberg’s text.]
We exercise our freedom in serving either God or Satan.
07/31/17
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 DW
Summary of text [comment] page 82
[Does the first singularity confirm Augustine’s social construction of Original Sin?
So far, I noted, in blogs on Anthony Zimmerman’s work, that Augustine’s paradigm looks like the myth of the descent of the soul.
Augustine was once a Manichaean philosopher.
In the Manichaean view, babies are evil.
Why?
They are material.
The incorruptible and good spirit that animates each baby collects corruptible and evil material in its descent.
The details about how this occurs are never quite clear. But, everyone knows the punchline: Babies are eternal spiritual sparks trapped in corruptible mortal flesh.]
07/28/17
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 DV
Summary of text [comment] page 82
[Our current Lebenswelt is not the Lebenswelt we evolved in.
The transition from intuitive reference to projected reference was the first singularity experienced by our species.
To me, this singularity is captured in those early stories of Genesis.
Indeed, all ancient written mythologies of southwest Asia testify to the first singularity.]
07/27/17
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 DU
[The materialist ideologies of the Cold Battle (1945-1989 AD; 7745-7789 U0’) desired to control this fundament of civilization.
However, if “property” cannot be smelled, tasted, touched, seen or heard, then what on earth is it?]