Total Depravity
“It is advocated to various degrees by many Protestant confessions of faith and catechisms, including those of some Lutheran synods,[1][2] and Calvinism.[3][4][5][6] Arminians, such as Methodists, believe and teach total depravity, but with distinct differences.[7][8]”
“…During the Protestant Reformation, the Reformers took Scotus’s position to be the Catholic position and argued that it made sin only a defect or privation of righteousness rather than an inclination toward evil. Martin Luther, John Calvin and other Reformers used the term “total depravity” to articulate what they claimed to be the Augustinian view that sin corrupts the entire human nature.[11] This did not, however, mean the loss of the imago Dei (image of God).”
“…John Calvin used terms like “total depravity” to mean that, despite the ability of people to outwardly uphold the law, there remained an inward distortion which makes all human actions displeasing to God, whether or not they are outwardly good or bad.[12] Even after regeneration, every human action is mixed with evil.[13] Later Calvinist theologians were agreed on this, but the language of the Canons of Dort as well as the 17th-century Reformed theologians which followed it did not repeat the language of “total depravity”, and arguably offer a more moderate view on the state of fallen humanity than Calvin.[12]”
“…Some Reformed theologians have mistakenly used the term “Arminianism” to include some who hold the Semipelagian doctrine of limited depravity, which allows for an “island of righteousness” in human hearts that is uncorrupted by sin and able to accept God’s offer of salvation without a special dispensation of grace.[15]”
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