Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.2 BO

Summary of text [comment] pages 72 and 73

In contrast to the concept that every virtue becomes impossible for man living in sin, Schoonenberg located the notion of grace. In Love, the Holy Spirit, all things are possible …

[… including God Recognizing Himself.

Grace is entangled in this relation. Up to this point, I have argued that ‘the state of grace’ belongs to the realm of actuality.

In this model, ‘grace’ differs from ‘self-destruction’.

‘Grace’ and ‘self-destruction’ are labels for the single actuality in the intersection of recognition and participation.]