It's outside our capabilities

Over against the encyclopedic assumptions of modern scholarly discourse, both the Christians and the Stoics say that we cannot see clearly without habituation into their specific traditions of practical thought. The Christians in particular go even farther: ordinary human language is broken, “natural” reason deeply damaged, and the cure for such brokenness and damage out of our reach. To return to blindness: repair of our defective sight is beyond our skills and even our greatest capacities. The only help for our predicament comes, as Paul might put it from an “apocalyptic” intervention—something that is entirely outside ordinary human possibilities.—One True Life: The Stoics and Early Christians as Rival Traditions, 195

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I think I see where he's going now. But how is he going to get there??
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