Summary of text [comment] pages 36 and 37<\/p>\n
Once Schoonenberg established the concept of grades [of grace or disgrace] plus the inherence of knowledge and will [see previous blogs], he turned to the idea of \u201cthe levity or gravity of matter\u201d in sins.<\/p>\n
\u201cMatter\u201d touches base with \u201cwhat makes an action moral\u201d.\u00a0 There must be external independent sources for the criteria of \u201cwhat is moral\u201d.\u00a0 At the same time, the notion is personal.\u00a0 The external criterion must be assumed within the internal.<\/p>\n
The outward aspect provides a norm.\u00a0 The inward aspect belongs to the human mind and body.<\/p>\n
We may speak of action as if it were a \u201cthing in itself\u201d, an isolate from the person\u2019s external and internal criteria, to be judged independently as a \u201csin\u201d or \u201cvirtuous\u201d act.<\/p>\n
Tabulations of actions as \u201cmortal sins\u201d pose a danger because action is the sign of an interior decision and a sign of valuation that reflects the ordination of one\u2019s life.\u00a0 The tabulations lead to the false conclusion that actions are isolated from judgments (external criteria) and potentials (inward criteria).<\/p>\n
Judgments and potentials matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summary of text [comment] pages 36 and 37 Once Schoonenberg established the concept of grades [of grace or disgrace] plus the inherence of knowledge and will [see previous blogs], he turned to the idea of \u201cthe levity or gravity of matter\u201d in sins. \u201cMatter\u201d touches base with \u201cwhat makes an action moral\u201d.\u00a0 There must be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n