#depravity

Cheer up! You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope. ↗

— Jack Miller

#grace #imagination

Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on reason. When this is ignored, we adopt an Enlightenment optimism about the role of a supposedly neutral reason in the recognition of truth. ↗

— James K.A. Smith

#christianity #enlightenment #rational #reason #sin