099. Chapter 9: Realistic Mode Of Adamic Sin.
Chapter 9 Realistic Mode Of Adamic Sin. With a general agreement of Calvinists, that native depravity is a judicial infliction on the ground of a common participation in the sin of Adam, there are, as previously stated, two leading modes of accounting for that participation: the realistic, and the representative. Many authors have appropriated both modes, and seemingly without any notice of their open contrariety. In recent times some have clearly seen their opposition and reciprocal exclusiveness, and more rigidly adhered to the one or the other. We may instance Shedd and Hodge, leading representatives respectively of the two theories.[497] When these theories previously came into notice they were merely stated, and their proper review is still on hand. They are so cardinal in anthropology that such review cannot with any propriety be omitted. We begin with the realistic theory.
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