I'm reading the Puncta again (mildred, want to put it on rheinsberg?)
I've added it to my to-do list. :)
Along with: finish trying to track down Katte's Species Facti and interrogation protocols, write up tonight's Katte findings from Koser, finish outlining Catt's memoirs and do a write-up, and reread Blanning as concentration allows, and keep chipping away at a big Rheinsberg write-up in the works.
I'd also like to get Katte's letters to his father and grandfather in the same Rheinsberg post, and maybe his grandfather's letter to FW and FW's reply.
Meant to add: I'm no kind of theologian, but I feel like "repentance + work out salvation" is the opposite of predestination, where your salvation is decided before you're born and can't be worked toward.
However, it's possible that the mention of Providence doubled as a private nod from Katte toward Fritz and their mutual interest in fatalist doctrines.
Hm - I don't know what an 18th-C theologian would have said; I think a 21st-century one would say that predestination doesn't rule out repentance and even working out salvation (which is a Pauline quote in any case), but it does say that whether you had been chosen to be one of the ones who was able to truly repent and work out salvation had been already chosen. But I'm sure I'm reaching too far with this anyway :)
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Re: Katte!
I've added it to my to-do list. :)
Along with: finish trying to track down Katte's Species Facti and interrogation protocols, write up tonight's Katte findings from Koser, finish outlining Catt's memoirs and do a write-up, and reread Blanning as concentration allows, and keep chipping away at a big Rheinsberg write-up in the works.
I'd also like to get Katte's letters to his father and grandfather in the same Rheinsberg post, and maybe his grandfather's letter to FW and FW's reply.
Meant to add: I'm no kind of theologian, but I feel like "repentance + work out salvation" is the opposite of predestination, where your salvation is decided before you're born and can't be worked toward.
However, it's possible that the mention of Providence doubled as a private nod from Katte toward Fritz and their mutual interest in fatalist doctrines.
Re: Katte!
Thank you for putting the Puncta up!