Sentence examples for total depravity from inspiring English sources
noun
Calvinist doctrine that all human action is tainted by original sin
Salvationists believe that mankind fell into "total depravity" with original sin.
Incidental Intelligence: A cross-reference in the card catalogue of the Minneapolis Public Library says, " Total Depravity - See Sin".
Calvin believed in our "total depravity," our utter fallenness, but this was not necessarily a cruel condemnation.
John Adams, a Unitarian, did not accept such Christian basics as "the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, total depravity and predestination".
The New Yorker, September 16, 1944 P. 16 Incidental Intelligence: A cross-reference in the card catalogue of the Minneapolis Public Library says, " Total Depravity - See Sin".
Accordingly, the… Incidental Intelligence: A cross-reference in the card catalogue of the Minneapolis Public Library says, " Total Depravity - See Sin".
Driscoll's New Calvinism underscores a curious fact: the doctrine of total human depravity has always had a funny way of emboldening, rather than humbling, its adherents.
No doubt it's difficult to reconcile that the "luck" of many a budding starlet came in the form of powerful, dominating men who could offer leading roles and Vanity Fair covers in exchange for, at best, a front-row seat to unsolicited masturbation, and at worst, the total pits of depravity.
Anarchy was in full gallop — thievery and depravity were unfolding across the capital.
What I learned on September 11th was not just the depths of 19 hijackers' depravity but the capacity of total strangers in a far-off-land to accept me as family and show me what true faith and Islam was all about.
The book is full of commentary on the tension between depravity and the divine.
