Podcast Description

In a world obsessed with self-improvement and moral performance, John Calvin delivers a sobering and liberating diagnosis: apart from Christ, even our best virtues are tainted at the root. Today we explore the total depravity of human nature, the difference between civil virtue and true righteousness, and why only union with Christ can produce works that are genuinely pleasing to God.

Today’s Readings:

John Calvin — Institutes of the Christian Religion

Book 3, Chapter 14, Sections 1–6

Augustine — The Confessions, Book X, Chapter X (Sections X–X)

Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica, Part X, Question X (Articles X–X)

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