Summary of text [comment] pages 78 and 79

[At the end of section 2.2 ( The Inability to Love), Schoonenberg described a failure to integrate, to achieve harmony, to order ourselves, and to find goodness.

Schoonenberg did not describe a positive feedback loop where sinful acts are contextualized through perverse justifications (think^group) and the denial of consequences (law^denial). Nor did he describe sinful acts situating a narrowing band of attitudes (conscience^lacking) and fixations (dispositions).

In sin, the individual’s potential, the range of possibilities inherent in conscience and dispositions, shrinks. Human recognition, the openness of one’s morality and the honest assessment of outcomes, constricts.

The sinner exhibits narrow-mindedness and arrogance, the foundations of bigotry and hubris. The sinner acts like an elitist.]