Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.2W

Summary of text [comment] page 72

[The second is the intersection showing the tension between ‘I recognize myself’ and ‘human nature is to participate in divine nature’.

Let me suppose that ‘love’ is ‘agape’.

Suppose the single actuality is ‘the state of brotherly love’. One would imagine this state to be a state of grace.

But, consider 1 John 4:20. If anyone says, ‘I love God’, yet hates his brother, he is a liar. He who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

In this case, the axis of recognition is visible. The person proclaims “his” recognition of “his” love for God.

The axis of participation is more hidden. The person (secretly) hates “his” brother.

What is the theological twist in 1 John 4:20?

Observe. The divine object is a lie.]