Depravity

ANALYSIS OF AUGUSTINE’S DOCTRINE OF EVIL

BEHAVIORAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DEPRAVITY

CRITERIA FOR A BIBLICAL VIEW OF HUMAN ABILITY

CRITIQUE OF AUGUSTINE’S VIEW OF EVIL

EXTREMELY SINFUL: Psalm 51

Virgil Warren, PhD

HERMENEUTICS AND NATURAL DEPRAVITY

HUMAN DEPRAVITY

Virgil Warren, PhD

Overview of Natural Depravity

             In the late fourth century Augustine, bishop of Hippo in North Africa, gave classical expression to natural depravity as part of his understanding of the nature of evil. In his thought, evil is a lack (privation) in the form of substance relative to its original form. That relatively deformed condition produces evil action. The nature of evil is lack, the cause of evil is lack in form, and the criterion of evil is lack in form compared to pristine form

INDWELLING SIN: ROMANS 7

Virgil Warren, PhD

            When Paul speaks of sin resident within him (or indwelling sin), perhaps he means it phenomenologically; that is, the experience of sin feels like something inside him. His point is that sin is not just something outside us (environment, influence) trying to tempt us into misaction; it is something inside us as well. There is a subjective as well as objective component in the sin phenomenon. The implication is personal responsibility for subjective response to objective influence and stimulus.

ITEMS AFFECTED BY THE DOCTRINE

PREVENIENT GRACE AND NATURAL DEPRAVITY

PSYCHOLOGICAL DEPRAVITY

STATES OF MAN AND IMPLICATIONS FOR DEPRAVITY

SUMMARY STATEMENT AGAINST NATURAL DEPRAVITY

Virgil Warren, PhD

            The proposition counter to natural depravity is as follows:

SUMMARY STATEMENT ON NATURAL DEPRAVITY

Virgil Warren, PhD

SUMMARY STATEMENT REGARDING NATURAL DEPRAVITY

THE DENIAL OF NATURAL DEPRAVITY:

THE IMAGE OF GOD AS THE INTERPERSONAL CAPACITY

TRIMMING BACK THEOLOGY