As we read and dialogue together, here's a quote on the importance of remembering our sanctification—but not merely our moral holiness as individuals, but the sanctification of our reason, our very ability to engage in theology inside the church.
When reason is expounded as a natural competency, then it is no longer understood as fallen and in need of reconciliation to God. Again, when reason is considered as a human capacity for transcendence, then reason's continual dependence on the vivifying Spirit is laid to one side, for natural reason does not need to be made holy.
Christian theology, however, must beg to differ. It must beg to differ because the confession of the gospel by which theology governs its life requires it to say that humankind in its entirety, including reason, is enclosed within the history of sin and reconciliation.... And if what Paul calls the renewal of the mind is to be visible anywhere, it has to be in Christian theology, in which holy reason is summoned to address the great matter of God and of all things in God.-John Webster, Holiness
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