The dominant note in American theology has been the Puritan Calvinist emphasis on “total depravity.” — a misinterpretation of even Augustine’s teaching on sin. The renewal of imago dei theology in American spirituality goes back to Wm Ellery Channing, the unitarian who called himself a ‘catholic Christian,’ and to early Quakers.
The dominant note in American theology has been the Puritan Calvinist emphasis on “total depravity.” — a misinterpretation of even Augustine’s teaching on sin. The renewal of imago dei theology in American spirituality goes back to Wm Ellery Channing, the unitarian who called himself a ‘catholic Christian,’ and to early Quakers.