Grace Defined and Defended

This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader as part of a quick takes post to catch up.
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At their very heart, the Canons of Dort are about the nature of grace—supernatural, unilateral, sovereign, effecting, redeeming, resurrecting grace, with all of its angularity all of its offense to human pride, and all of its comfort for the weary soul. That's what Dort wanted to settle. That's what they were jealous to protect. Some words are worth the most careful definitions, just as some truths are too precious not to defend.