Still standing: a reply to Haratine on nonlapsarianism
摘要
This article defends the nonlapsarian position against recent objections raised by T. Parker Haratine. It begins by recapping Haratine’s proposed dilemma for nonlapsarianism (what he calls Allegorical Accounts), and then offers several lines of response. I argue that Haratine overlooks some aspects of nonlapsarianism that, when clarified, largely immunise it against his critique. In particular, employing the distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic sinfulness and/or admitting other types of sin besides the “full-blown” variety allows the nonlapsarian to affirm jointly all the propositions Haratine takes to be inconsistent with a rejection of Original Sin. I thus conclude that nonlapsarianism is a more resilient theological option than Haratine supposes.