On Original Sin: Common Places, Volume 1 (2nd Edition)

Author:

Vermigli, Peter Martyr

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9781949716351

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Davenant Press

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Paperback

Pages:

158

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Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499-1562) was a forgotten giant of the Protestant Reformation. With a legacy that spanned from Naples to Zurich to Oxford, Vermigli left behind him voluminous biblical commentaries and treatises, and a band of faithful disciples who collected his writings into the massive theological compendium, the Loci Communes. “On Original Sin” represents the first installment of a new project to translate the Loci into English for the first time since 1583, Presented here in a clear, readable, and learned translation, Vermigli’s searching discussion of original sin reveals the biblical and patristic foundations of this controversial doctrine, and its centrality to Protestant orthodoxy. Along the way, Vermigli offers a scathing critique of the semi-Pelagian Catholic theologian Albert Pighius and defends the Augustinian understanding of sin and grace, in a treatise marked by exegetical skill, historical erudition, and philosophical sophistication.

This expanded section edition features updated artwork, a fresh typeset, and a comprehensive index.

Contents

Foreword and General Introduction
Chris Castaldo

Volume Introduction
Kirk Summers

The Pelagians on Human Nature
Adam's Wholeness before the Fall
Pighius on Infant Guilt
Concupiscence: A Propensity for Evil
The Removal of Divine Grace in the Fall
Recovering Our Humanity in Christ
Original Sin in Infants
Pighius on Adam's Original Wholeness
Natural Knowledge
The Transmission of Original Sin
The Punishment of Unbaptized Infants
Generational Guilt
Godly Parents and Inherited Sin
Aggregated Guilt
Digression on Romans 5: Sin Defined
Digression on Romans 5: How Sin Enters the World
Digression on Romans 5: How Sin Is Propagated
Digression on Romans 5: Creatures and the Fall

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Index

Endorsement

“With this precise but grandly readable translation, Reformation scholars owe a debt of gratitude to the editors and translator for this initial volume in this new series on Peter Martyr Vermigli’s Commonplaces. Kirk Summers has faithfully and eloquently rendered Vermigli who is here at his subtle and forceful best; and has thus opened to a wider audience the Reformer’s thought on some of the questions most central to the disputes of the sixteenth century.”
–Gary Jenkins, Eastern University; author of Calvin’s Tormentor’s: Understanding the Conflicts that Shaped the Reformer