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He also contrasts Pelagius’s concept of sinfulness as the free action of individuals with Augustine’s view of sinfulness as the corporate nature of the human race operating through the individual. For Martensen, the resulting antinomy must be overcome, for some truth can be found in both positions.44 He sought to synthesize them by claiming that the individual does organically share the nature of Adam, but that this nature only becomes personal guilt as the individual ego appropriates this tragic legacy as its own and develops it further.45
Eros and Self-Emptying: The Intersections of Augustine and Kierkegaard (Kierkegaard as a Christian Thinker)
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