{"id":316,"date":"2013-03-20T21:22:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T21:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/75.103.96.165\/blog\/?p=316"},"modified":"2014-10-07T23:02:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T23:02:38","slug":"thoughts-on-sin-by-ted-peters-1994-anxiety-2b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Sin by Ted Peters (1994) Anxiety 2B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we think of the \u201cpremoderns\u201d, we can imagine people in a feudal structure where noone feared losing the life that she could have had.\u00a0 That is because people could never have that life.\u00a0 A peasant could never imagine herself to be the lady of a house.\u00a0 A lady of a house could never imagine herself to be a queen.\u00a0 The world was knitted together with the threads of a holistic worldview, where all things came together according to one overarching design.\u00a0 Everything fit together.<\/p>\n<p>A quick survey of medieval history should put that fantasy to rest.\u00a0 Every feudal realm had these traders, millers, blacksmiths, who were neither royalty nor peasants.\u00a0 They, inevitably, made money.\u00a0 The wife of a miller could fancy herself a lady, if she could afford that sable dress.\u00a0 The man who made clever trades could become a knight or lord.\u00a0 The threads of that holistic worldview were forever being plucked out and replaced, even though everyone thought that the tapestry remained the same.<\/p>\n<p>One has to go back further, before \u201cpremodern\u201d to get to the world where no-one feared losing the life that she could have had.\u00a0 One would have to go back, as in <em>An Archaeology of the Fall<\/em>, to before Civilization to get to the point were <em>xiety<\/em> referred to what people had.<\/p>\n<p>Only then did people not kill others in order to relieve their own fear of being killed.<\/p>\n<p>Why do I say this?\u00a0 Peters\u2019 reviewed the ideas of Ernest Becker, who located <em>anxiety<\/em> in the \u201cmodern\u201d denial of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we think of the \u201cpremoderns\u201d, we can imagine people in a feudal structure where noone feared losing the life that she could have had.\u00a0 That is because people could never have that life.\u00a0 A peasant could never imagine herself to be the lady of a house.\u00a0 A lady of a house could never imagine [&hellip;]<\/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-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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