Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 YU
09/16/19
Category Archives: Our current Lebenswelt is not the Lebenswelt that we evolved in
Human psychology evolved under in the social milieu of constrained complexity. Currently, humans live in unconstrained complexity. What has this done to our minds? These topics are addressed in various parts of An Archaeology of the Fall, particularly in chapters 8C and 11B.
09/13/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 YT
[Before I go another round in chewing the cud on this, I want to briefly re-iterate the interscope and intersection proposed in section 2.1.
Consider two nested forms:
I recognize myself as an image of God.
My human nature is to participate in divine nature.
The intersection produces two contrasting single actualities: grace and self-destruction.
Here they are.]
09/12/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 YS
Summary of text [comment] page 88
[Here, I take a breath and step back.
I have been going round and round within the model of ‘the thought experiment where ‘I choose something’.
At least I am not still on page 83 of Schoonenberg’s text.]
09/11/19
09/10/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 YQ
Summary of text [comment] pages 87 and 88
[To me, it seems that concupiscence (literally, ‘the state of being with Cupid’) resonates with bondage. Disintegration goes with words.
Imprisoning, disintegrating words are co-opposed to bondage-inducing concupiscence.]
09/9/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 YP
[Responsibility and freedom are open to grace.
Words and bondage are not open to grace.]
09/5/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 YN
The images of imprisonment and bondage are evocative, but concupiscence and disintegration would also be appropriate images.
09/4/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 YM
Summary of text [comment] pages 87 and 88
Grace maintains balance in the heart.
As long as the individual does not admit grace with “his” free choice, thus allowing the Holy Spirit to increase “his” Christian Liberty, the sinner clings to “his” own sinful choices, imprisoning “himself” in the houses of sin, law and death.
He falls into [words and] bondage.
08/2/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 XR
Summary of text [comment] pages 86 and 87
[I, seat of choice3b, virtually situates the mirror of the world3a.]
07/30/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 XO
[Modernism fixates on the rules of non-contradiction.
And now, 50 years after Schoonenberg wrestled with a Zeitgeist full of false dichotomies, the modern way of thought is dying.
Long dismissed religious and philosophical ideas spring to life.
The concept of the nested form may seem new and bizarre.
But it is not new.
The premoderns wrote according to the nested form without explicitly knowing the structure of the nested form.
Soon enough, the category-based nested form will become routine.
Then, people will look back at the divided moderns and wonder:
How could they have been so stupid?]