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[Perhaps I was a little off target in the previous blogs. Who knows? I return to Schoonenberg’s text.]
Schoonenberg wrote that the Church discovered that the heart, the center of the person, accounts for the free decision for which ‘man’ is responsible. What makes a ‘man’ good or bad before God? Not the qualities that can be noticed or measured, nor the consequences of his actions. It is the response of the free person which takes shape in these actions. To be sure, the outer and objective structure of his activity is important. But the deepest value lies in the response of the heart.
It is here that the person expresses ‘himself’ as such.
[To me, this description of the “soul” calls to mind the dual concepts of consciencespecified1 and dispositions1 that are habituated by our virtuous or sinful actions. This description of the “heart” calls to mind the entire intersecting nested form.]