Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 LZ
05/25/18
Category Archives: Interscope & Intersection
05/17/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 LT
[Turn on Progressive TV to see a parade similar to the Second Temple.
The elites of Big government Liberalism demand ritual purity. They demand that the average citizen give up “his” stuff. They say that the average citizen does not get along. They have buckets of nasty labels for the deplorables.
They say that the average citizen is intolerant unless “he” conforms to the multitudinous ritual decrees of the Progressive state, universities and various other sovereign-loving affiliations.]
05/16/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 LS
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[Does this sound vaguely familiar?
Do the previous blogs sound familiar in contemporary America?
The average American citizen just wants to get along. The average citizen just wants to keep “his” stuff.]
05/15/18
05/11/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 LP
[The mirror of the world3a or the thought experiment3a narrows the range of ‘somethings2a’ that a person can envision1a.
The Second Temple elites always acted more ritually pure relative to the subjects.
Therefore, one particular ‘something2a’ became the best option for the common folk.
What was that something2a?
Here it is:
Get along by (trying to) meet ritual demands and, most importantly, avoid being accused of violating the Law.]
05/10/18
05/9/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 LN
[What might help me understand this?
I turn to the model of the thought experiment where I choose ‘something’.]
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.]
05/1/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 LH
Maybe, the enhanced economic performance of (what later was negatively labeled) “the Christians” permitted the Roman Empire to survive as long as it did.
This conclusion flies in the face of massive tomes, carrying titles like The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire.]
04/30/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 LG
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[Here is a strange claim:
In the late Roman Empire, the converted Jew and the Jesus-worshipping slave may have been marginally more economically productive than the Second Temple Jew and the pagan slave.
Why?
The former were not of this world3a. They were in the world3a but not of it. Therefore, they did not bother with unproductive fantasies2a.]