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Vinony

hamartiology

noun

  1. part of theology treating the doctrine of sin
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From hamartia (“sin”) + -ology.

  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.”