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Definition of Total depravity
1. Noun. The Calvinist doctrine that everyone is born in a state of corruption as a result of original sin.
Definition of Total depravity
1. Noun. (religion) Calvinist doctrine that all human action is tainted by original sin ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Total Depravity
Literary usage of Total depravity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Orthodoxy: Its Truths and Errors by James Freeman Clarke (1918)
"Truth in the Doctrine of total depravity. — Nevertheless there is a sense in
which man may be said ... It is not a total depravity, but a total alienation. ..."
2. The Works of Joseph Bellamy, D.D., First Pastor of the Church in Bethlem by Joseph Bellamy, Tryon Edwards (1853)
"THE PERFECTION OF THE DIVINE LAW, AND total depravity. ... As to total depravity,
they say, " The sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell, ..."
3. The Works of the Rev. Joseph Bellamy, D.D., Late of Bethlem, Connecticut by Joseph Bellamy, Noah Benedict (1812)
"The perfection of the divine law, and total depravity, inconsistent with the
notion of ... As to total depravity, they say, ' The sinfulness of that estate ..."
4. A History of American Literature .. by Moses Coit Tyler (1890)
"... characteristics—His frankness in damnatory preaching—total depravity —Formalism—Need
of Christ—The versatility and pathos of his appeals. III. ..."
5. Essays, Lectures, Etc. Upon Select Topics in Revealed Theology by Nathaniel William Taylor (1859)
"X.—total depravity BY NATURE.—(Continued.} Objections to the theory.—(4.)
Infants are sinners.—The position of the author defined.—That infants are sinners ..."
6. Outlines of Systematic Theology: Designed for the Use of Theological Students by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1908)
"The phrase " total depravity," however, is liable to misinterpretation, ...
By the total depravity of universal humanity we mean: A. Negatively,—not that ..."
7. Dialogues, Letters and Essays on Various Subjects: To which is Annexed, an by Andrew Fuller (1810)
"\x On the total depravity of Human Nature. ... The doctrine of total depravity,
according to your own explication of it, seems to im» ply that all that ..."
8. American Wit and Humor by Joel Chandler Harris (1907)
"Katharine Kent Child Walker The total depravity of Inanimate Things I AM confident
that, ... I believe in the total depravity of inanimate things. ..."
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