That Time C.S. Lewis Got ‘Total Depravity’ Wrong (Like Everybody Else) | Reformedish. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
There is, however, this, from The Thirty-Nine Articles: "Works done before the grace of Christ, and the Inspiration of his Spirit, are not pleasant to God, forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ; neither do they make men meet to receive grace, or (as the School-authors say) deserve grace of congruity: yea rather, for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done, we doubt not but they have the nature of sin."
This, I believe, is understood to reflect the influence of Calvinism on Anglicanism, and it would appear to say that works done by natural man are all sinful. A view that, in my opinion, does credit neither to God nor man.
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