Some Notes on Grace
We begin as we often do, with a topical tweet (they'll never make me use 'Xeet').
There is an old claim in Christian theology, older than Augustine, older than the councils, older even than the
arguments over what the soul is made of. The claim that human beings are marked by an intrinsic crookedness of
the will, though not evil in the cartoonish sense and not doomed in the fatalistic sense.
However so this will
is fundamentally bent in a way we cannot always perceive from inside ourselves. The modern therapeutic and indeed rationalist
vocabulary calls it bias, blind spot, complex, dysregulation etc. No matter how we describe it the intuition is the same:
we are not as transparent to ourselves as we like to imagine.
I like the terming of original sin much better, as does the author of the tweet quoted above.