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[The nextquestion is: Has a God who Judges been revealed?
Schoonenberg presumes so. Let us take a look at his presumption from the perspective of Peirce’s categories (er, my view of that perspective).
Think about Jesus, “the One God Recognizes as Himself”, being miraculously conceived, then born as a human, from this apparently random woman. Could God provide a more realistic and more fantastic image of our own “coming into being” from the realm of possibility? Here we are. Our own actuality is only reason why we do not recognize that each and every one of us is impossible. Was Jesus any more impossible?
Jesus, like any one of us, had a consciencespecified1 and dispositions1. Somehow, as he developed he knew that the Father Recognized Him. In that Recognition, his soul occupied the same position as our souls after death. The Person of Jesus, in a sense, accepted the mantle of our “waiting to be Recognized, and with that Recognition, Judged” simply because He was “the One the Father Recognized”.
“The One Who Recognizes2” and “the One Who is Recognized2” both belong to the realm of actuality. What happened when it became more and more apparent that the Father recognized His Son? Everyone was repelled in horror and drawn forward in fascination.
On the one hand, every thinkgroup was revealed for what it would lead to: a mess of porridge cooked from human flesh.
On the other hand, we saw an image of thinkdivine that we could not even come close to comprehending. All humanity has been drawn into the theological drama, the Theodrama, of God’s Self Recognition.]