In the classic view, man’s life is journey, a pilgrimage, in which
one’s one’s self is not mere datum, nor an electronic calculator
reading ‘decisions’ off new 'situations,’ but a soul in the
making, a self which can become itself only as the weight of sin is
recognized and the self recognizes a center of meaning and source of
power beyond itself, forgiving and remaking that self. –James Wm.
McClendon, Jr. Biography as Theology
