Week 4--Barker, Chapter 8 (Subjectivity and Identity)

Determination and free will are questions that usually take on a metaphysical cast. But these ideas are really just parts that fit into socially constructed narratives that we plug in whenever it suits our narrative. This is why I think the Christian debate about free will and determinism can be supported on both sides, depending on how it’s being used in the narrative. The Bible attests to both because in the unfolding of the human drama, both ideas relate to our human condition. Instead of thinking in terms of contradiction, we need to think of them being held in tension.