Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 1.5J2

[“Postmodernism” may be defined as “Modernism Crashing On the Shoals of Actuality”.  “Modernism” may be defined as “Scholasticism Dying On the Shores of Speculative Possibilities”.  Pyrrhic victories usher in new eras.

How many papers have been published on venial and mortal sin during the past 25 years?  Only 10 years after Man and Sin came out in Dutch (1962), Menninger was publishing Whatever became of Sin?  Yet here, in this blog, Schoonenberg’s words on this apparently arcane topic have become disturbingly relevant.]