The Reformation and the Doctrine of Man: Man’s Total Depravity

The King of the church used His church at the time of the Reformation to develop especially the doctrines of man's salvation -- soteriology. The Reformers proclaimed a salvation of man that was gracious -- arising completely out of the unmerited favor of the merciful God from the beginning to the end. For the Reformers, nothing showed the need for the grace of God more than the depravity of those saved -- their total depravity. Therefore, when the Reformers developed the doctrine of salvation,...