Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.1EW

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[‘Our states of existence’ (of either grace or self-destruction) are tumultuous because they contain contradictions.

On top of that, ‘our states of existence’ face apparently incompatible normal contexts. A divine object (such as an idol) may be incompatible with our human nature (to participate in divine nature; such as, triadic relations). Normal contexts obey the laws of exclusivity. The incompatibilities, manifested as contradictions in ‘our states of existence’, may drive conversion from one exclusive normal context to another.

The tension between the normal contexts and the realms of possibility constitutes a God-source and human-subject polarity within the intersection.

Finally, ‘our states of existence’ belong (as an actuality) in a content-level nested form. This content-level form describes the person. However, this nested form is not articulated. It models the person’s unconscious.

Thus, Schoonenberg’s word ‘counterpole’ is rendered as both ‘God-source and human-subject’ and ‘God-source and human-subject within the person’.]