Monday 24 March 2014

SIN

'...sin is not only personal and individual (a violation of a relationship); it also becomes inscribed into the cultural institutions of our human making (a refusal of our commission to be God's vice-regents). Culture-making - unfolding the latent possibilities that have been folded into creation - is a vocation given to us as image bearers of God. Just as the Fall means not that we stop desiring but rather that our desire becomes disordered, so too sin does not mean that we stop being culture makers; rather, it means that we do this poorly, sinfully, unjustly.'
James KA Smith, Desiring the Kingdom, p.178.