Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 DO

[Three ideals substitute for a divine Trinity, allowing sovereign power to contextualize itself as the anthropological actuality in objectrelation.

Each post-religious enlightenment godhead calls for and justifies the exercise of sovereign power, according to its manifestation of the three ideals.

The past 370 years continue the so-called Wars of Religion.

The Peace of Westphalia (in 1648 AD) is the starting point.

Post-religionist enlightenment godheads are conjured.

Then they battle among one another.]