Sentences with phrase «doctrine of original sin»

At a time when it could be argued that we most need it, we have lost the ancient Christian doctrine of original sin as a corporate human condition preceding and affecting each individual.
For the present, my aim has been to explore new foundations for the old doctrine of original sin, allowing us once again to name its power.
All men of affairs in business and government act on the basis of an implied doctrine of original sin.
We see the principal result of this struggle in the classic doctrine of original sin.
Modern man has rejected the traditional Christian doctrine of original sin.
Karma like the Christian doctrine of original sin seems to me not so much to explain the inequalities of life as to acknowledge them.
As far as original sin is concerned Dawkins is right to say that if we simply ditch «Adam and Eve» then we can not credibly maintain the traditional doctrine of original sin as a wound introduced by a historical individual and passed on to all further generations by inheritance.
In this passage, especially in the phrase «the nature of human affairs», Smith comes close to the traditional doctrine of original sin.
Indeed, the Christian doctrine of original sin leads us to expect that sin will play an enormous role in human history, and that the church and its members are in no way exempt.
Out of the Church's doctrine of original sin arises a boundary.
Augustine began with the Pauline doctrine of original sin and the fall of man, and attributed all moral evil, and most if not all physical evil, to that.
The Immaculate Conception is a problem for anyone who takes seriously, as I do, the Augustinian doctrine of original sin.
Not sharing the Western doctrine of original sin, the Orthodox hold that every person retains an efficacious awareness of God, even after the Fall.
Unlike West, she relates her insights to the old doctrine of original sin, stating that «feminism can rediscover the meaning of the fall in a radically new way» (SGT 37).
There is power and wisdom in Augustine's doctrine of original sin as an existential and phenomenological analysis of the human condition.
Has no - one read Jonathan Edwards» writing on the doctrine of Original Sin?
One of his major treatises, for example, was entitled The Doctrine of Original Sin, According to Scripture, Reason and Experience.
In this synthesis he diverged from Teilhard de Chardin and from any pantheism or confusion of the orders of matter and spirit, or denial of the doctrine of original sin.
In the Faith pamphlet «The Disaster of Sin», the existence of suffering and evil is confronted, and the doctrine of original sin outlined.
Somerset Maugham, who certainly has no theological ax to grind, could be documenting the doctrine of original sin in psychological terms when he writes:
Fr Mahoney is extremely frank in expressing his view that the doctrine of Original Sin through the primordial fall of our first parents should simply be ditched, and that the core Christian view of Redemption through the atoning Sacrifice of Christ should be modified beyond traditional recognition.
Much as we may dislike the doctrine of original sin — and indeed it has often been formulated in a way that must antagonize any man of sense and good will — there would appear to be in human beings the seeds of selfishness, arrogance, brutality, callousness, the lust for power, jealousy, hatred and all the rest of the miserable host of evil.
Yorck gives by way of illustration a re-interpretation of the doctrines of original sin and the atonement.
Paul Tillich in his Systematic Theology would say that «The doctrine of original sin seems to imply a negative evaluation of man and this in radical contrast with the new feeling for life that has been developed in industrial society.»
Still, it was frustrating that in the debate of the brokenness of man the doctrine of Original Sin, something «as obvious as potatoes» as G. K. Chesterton put it, did not show its face.
Is it less «monstrous and repulsive» [as Dilthey had stigmatized the doctrine of original sin] that sickness and misery are inherited from generation to generation?
That is why Reinhold Niebuhr wondered how anyone could doubt the doctrine of original sin — it is, he said, the only Christian doctrine that is verifiable by observation.
-- The Western Church — ALL of the Western Church — has inherited the doctrine of Original Sin.
And it seems to me that is where postmodernism at its best gets us: it preaches the doctrine of original sin to arrogant modernism.
Against all soft - centered optimism, Updike salutes the doctrine of original sin for acknowledging this obdurate fact: «The world is fallen, and in a fallen world animals, men, and nations make space for themselves through a willingness to fight.
As Pagels shows, from the second century to even the early Augustine himself, there was no real precedent for Augustine's doctrine of original sin.
Atkinson points out that it was not the missionaries» doctrine of original sin that alone authorized physical punishment.»
«Throughout western history this extreme version of the doctrine of original sin, when taken as the basis for political structures, has tended to appeal to those who, for whatever reason, suspect human motives and the capacity for self - government.»
The cross of Christ was not meant to provide a means of forgiveness for a humanity that is universally condemned for the sins they could not avoid if they had wanted to (doctrine of Original Sin) but God gave his Son as a graphic and powerful demonstration that God forgives any and all, and invites everyone into the Kingdom of God wherein a person is given the Holy Spirit to help overcome and be free from sin.
He believed that his doctrine of original sin was but a commentary on Paul's thought, such as in Romans 1:24 - 25: «Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator.»
(The only empirically verifiable doctrine of Christianity, he noted on more than one occasion, is the doctrine of original sin.)
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