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[What are we to conclude from the radically different manifestations of Knowledge and Will that accompany one type of situation (where thinkgroup and thinkdivine both exist) as opposed to another type of situation (where a thinkgroup achieves sovereign power and transubstantiates into an (infra)sovereign religion, a thinkpro-object and a thinkanti-object)?
The latter type of situation appears beyond the subject matter that Schoonenberg addresses, even though he witnessed the latter type with his own eyes. In fact, the latter type should be of greatest concern to scholars. Nearly every nation in the West has fallen, in Modern Times, under the sway of a Public Cult.
Perhaps, one reason is that theology takes time. Even now, a century after the First World War, we still do not comprehend what happened. We are still wrestling with the great thinkers of that era, such as Pierce and Saussure.
Schoonenberg, writing 50 years after the death of Peirce, clearly had no access to the categorical tools that I currently use.
Still, Schoonenberg labors to develop a new perspective.
The historic occurrences of sovereigninfrareligion rule are becoming more and more frequent. They no longer appear to be historical anomalies. I suspect that their increasing occurrence is conditioned by the adoption of “mass media” ways of talking.
The framework of venial and mortal sin seems to both rejected an usurped whenever Anti-knowledge, Denial of Consequences, Perversion and Servitude reign.]