My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in the manner of the other creatures, but are instead participants in a reality that utterly exceeds our powers of description. I think the mind should inspire religious awe in the Christian, for the richness of the human circumstance, and for human beings as such.
And:
Calvin celebrates the brilliance of mind and body, as any reader of TheInstitutes is aware. Over against this is his insistence on our tendency toward error, toward sin. So human life is full of the potential manifest in the gifts God has given us, and full of our inevitable falling short. This is a very dynamic understanding of the self. I find no difficulty in accepting both of its terms as true.
-Marilynne Robinson, in a recent Christianity Today interview.
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