Summary of text [comment] pages 78 and 79<\/p>\n
[At the end of section 2.2 ( The Inability to Love<\/em>), Schoonenberg described a failure to integrate, to achieve harmony, to order ourselves, and to find goodness.<\/p>\n Schoonenberg did not describe a positive feedback loop where sinful acts are contextualized through perverse justifications (thinkgroup<\/sup>) and the denial of consequences (lawdenial<\/sup>). Nor did he describe sinful acts situating a narrowing band of attitudes (consciencelacking<\/sup>) and fixations (dispositions).<\/p>\n In sin, the individual’s potential, the range of possibilities inherent in conscience and dispositions,<\/em> shrinks. Human recognition, the openness of one’s morality and the honest assessment of outcomes,<\/em> constricts.<\/p>\n The sinner exhibits narrow-mindedness and arrogance, the foundations of bigotry and hubris. The sinner acts like an elitist.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 (thinkgroup) and the denial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n