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  • Do not let your hamartiology obscure your eschatology unless, of course, your point is hamartiological, in which case stick to it.

    The Word Seemed Odd « Unknowing 2009

  • It is a point at which his good theology has taken over the logic of his poem, and not all of his theology but his hamartiology has taken over, as it were, his eschatology and rendered it potentially ridiculous.

    The Word Seemed Odd « Unknowing 2009

  • In doing so it utterly destroys the hamartiology (doctrine of sin) of the Scriptures.

    Stand Firm 2009

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  • Hamartiology (Greek: αμα�?τια, hamartia, "missing the mark," "sin," + λογια, logia, "sayings" or "discourse") is the branch of Christian theology, more specifically, systematic theology, which is the study of sin with a view to articulating a doctrine of it.

    April 14, 2008