Augustine’s massa damnata (humanity is a damned mass) only fits well when understood within the context of Christ’s assumptio carnis (assumption of flesh) as archetypal humanity (what it means to be human at the blueprint level) for all of humanity. And even then the mirifica commutatio (wonderful exchange) isn’t transactional but filial.
THANK YOU!! Bobby – you defined the Latin phrases! This helps us dummies follow your erudite thinking.
@Steve, if anyone is a dummy it is me; I am chief of the dummies.