Why is the World So Screwed Up? The Gnomic Will! - a podcast by Daniel Dal Monte

In this episode, I discuss a controversy in the sixth century Church over the nature of the will (or wills) of Christ. The Monothelite heresy claimed that Jesus, even though he had both a human and a divine person, had just one will. But St. Maximos the Confessor defends the dual-will theory of Christ, and was tortured for it! Maximos argues that the human will has both a natural and a gnomic aspect. The natural aspect is implanted by God and naturally seeks what God intended us to seek. But, our fallenness means that we have a gnomic will, which means that we do not know what is good for us and have to constantly deliberate in uncertain situations. Check this corresponding article by Henry Karlson, "St. Maximos, The Will, and Universal Salvation," to be found here: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2020/08/st-maximos-the-will-and-universal-salvation/.

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