A distinctive contribution of Protestant dogmatics is its account of the interrelation of divine grace and human sin in which saving grace comes upon fallen, sinful humanity. What is most evangelically interesting and significant to Reformed faith is that God graciously acts precisely for creatures who are turned away from and pitched against divine goodness, against divine vocation, and against divine love. Thus, to ask and answer the question of ‘nature and grace’ as such is not yet to have set the question of grace in its most significant and telling register. In conversation with insights from the Didache, the apostle Paul, and early modern Reformed doctrines of sin, this essay argues that we do not win the measure of divine grace unless and until we meet it in connection with our godlessness and enmity, that is, in God’s saving confrontation with radical human sinfulness.

新教教义的一个独特贡献是它说明了神恩典与人类罪恶之间的相互关系，其中救赎恩典来自堕落的罪恶人类。对改革宗信仰而言，最具有福音意义的福音意义是，上帝对那些背弃神圣的善良，反对神圣的事业和反对神圣的爱而投降的生物恰好表现出仁慈的举动。因此，这样问和回答“自然与恩典”的问题还没有在其最重要和最能说明问题的领域中设定恩典问题。与Didache的见解进行对话，使徒保罗，以及早期的现代宗教改革学说，这篇文章认为除非我们与我们的不虔诚和仇恨有关，即在上帝与极端人类的拯救对抗中，否则我们不会赢得神圣恩典的衡量标准罪恶。