Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 1.4F

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[Since this is the age of refusal and usurpation, allow me to re-iterate a definition of religion that fits this era.

Religion may be defined according two criteria:

One, religion views the individual and the world according to the intersecting nested forms with parallel (originally exclusive and interpellating) nested forms on the vertical moral religious axis.  In doing so, “religion3” brings “the world2” into relation with “the potential of the individual1“.

Two, religion holds a nested relation to sovereign as actuality.  This means that there are two types of religion: Suprasovereign religions put the sovereign into context.  Infrasovereign religions are situated by the sovereign.

In nested form:

suprasovereign religion3(sovereign2( infrasovereign religion1))]