- Preliminary Anthropology
I.—Man a Creation of God and a Child of God
II.—Unity of the Race
1. Argument from History
2. Argument from Language
3. Argument from Psychology
4. Argument from Physiology
III.—Essential Elements of Human Nature
1. The Dichotomous Theory
2. The Trichotomous Theory
IV.—Origin of the Soul
1. The Theory of Preëxistence
2. The Creatian Theory
3. The Traducian Theory
V.—The Moral Nature of Man
1. Conscience
2. Will
- The Original State of Man
I.—Essentials of Man's Original State
1. Natural Likeness to God, or Personality
2. Moral Likeness to God, or Holiness
A. The Image of God as including only Personality
B. The Image of God as consisting simply in Man's Natural Capacity for Religion
II.—Incidents of Man's Original State
1. Results of Man's Possession of the Divine Image
2. Concomitants of Man's Possession of the Divine Image
1st. The Theory of an Original Condition of Savagery
2nd. The Theory of Comte as to the Stages of Human Progress
- Sin, or Man's State of Apostasy
Section I.—The Law of God
I.—Law in General
II.—The Law of God in Particular
1. Elemental Law
2. Positive Enactment
III.—Relation of the Law to the Grace of God
Section II.—Nature of Sin
I.—Definition of Sin
1. Proof
2. Inferences
II.—The Essential Principle of Sin
1. Sin as Sensuousness
2. Sin as Finiteness
3. Sin as Selfishness
Section III.—Universality of Sin
I.—Every human being who has arrived at moral consciousness has committed acts, or cherished dispositions, contrary to the Divine Law
II.—Every member of the human race, without exception, possesses a corrupted nature, which is a source of actual sin, and is itself sin
Section IV.—Origin of Sin in the Personal Act of Adam
I.—The Scriptural Account in Genesis
1. Its General Character not Mythical or Allegorical, but Historical
2. The Course of the Temptation, and the resulting Fall
II.—Difficulties connected with the Fall, considered as the personal Act of Adam
1. How could a holy being fall?
2. How could God justly permit Satanic Temptation?
3. How could a Penalty so great be justly connected with Disobdience to so slight a Command?
III.—Consequences of the Fall — so far as respects Adam
1. Death
A. Physical Death or the Separation of the Soul from the Body
B. Spiritual Death, or the Separation of the Soul from God
2. Positive and formal Exclusion from God's Presence
Section V.—Imputation of Adam's Sin to his Posterity
Scripture Teaching as to Race-sin and Race-responsibility
I.—Theories of Imputation
1. The Pelagian Theory, or Theory of Man's Natural Innocence
2. The Arminian Theory, or Theory of voluntarily appropriated Depravity
3. The New-School Theory, or Theory of uncondemnable Vitiosity
4. The Federal Theory, or Theory of Condemnation by Covenant
5. Theory of Mediate Imputation, or Theory of Condemnation for Depravity
6. Augustinian Theory, or Theory of Adam's Natural Headship
Exposition of Rom. 5:12-19
Tabular View of the various Theories of Imputation
II.—Objections to the Augustinian Theory of Imputation
Section VI.—Consequences of sin to Adam's posterity
I.—Depravity
1. Depravity Partial or Total?
2. Ability or Inability?
II.—Guilt
1. Nature of Guilt
2. Degrees of Guilt
III.—Penalty
1. Idea of Penalty
2. Actual Penalty of Sin
Section VII.—The salvation of infants
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