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hamartology

hamartology is the alternative form of hamartiology.

Meaning of hamartiology

Noun

hamartiology (uncountable)

  1. The theology or study of sin.
    • Though defiant of the fundamentally substantialist approach to the problem of sin in the Augustinian tradition, Barth adopts the substantialist nomenclature of the Latin tradition and the basic grammar of Augustine's hamartiology.2018, Shao Kai Tseng, Barth's Ontology of Sin and Grace: Variations on a Theme of Augustine, Routledge, →ISBN

Questions about hamartology

What is hamartology the alternative form of?
Hamartology is the alternative form of hamartiology.

Words near hamartology in the dictionary

  1. hamartiologically
  2. hamartiologist
  3. hamartiologists
  4. hamartiology
  5. hamartochondroma
  6. hamartology
  7. hamartoma
  8. hamartomas
  9. hamartomata
  10. hamartomatosis
  11. hamartomatous

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