헤르만 바빙크의 『개혁교의학』에 나타난 죄 이해

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to show how the organic and wholistic explanation of sin in Herman Bavinck`s Reformed Dogmatics overcomes Pelagian atonmistic explanation of sin. Bavinck`s view of sin makes the sin understood both as guilt and as corruption. That is why human inner and unconscious inclination can be regarded as sin. It results in his suggesting stricter standard of sin than that of Pelagianism. Bavinck remains faithful to the Lordship of the Creator God in showing that the evil cannot exist by itself by distinguishing between the structure and the direction of the creation. Bavinck emphasizes the simultaneity of the guilt and the corruption of human beings. That is how he emphasizes human responsibility and the necessity of atonement, for the corruption is no necessary result of the guilt of human beings. Bavinck is against those who suggest that guilt results from social environment and that the guilt is a kind of sickness, for he thinks that the retribution principle shows both the justice and the mercy of the God. The retribution principle, he suggests, includes the punishment of past sin and the prevention of future sin. Bavinck`s understanding of the image of God from the perspective of the three-fold of Christ corresponds to his three-fold understanding of the punishment of sin; the punishments of sin are the rejection of truth, suffering and the rule of the Satan. It corresponds to the three-fold understanding of the atonement and the salvation. Bavinck hold fast his principle of diversity in unity in his discussion of the sin, for he recognizes both the unity of sin as lawless act against God`s law and the diversity of sin manifested in its various intensity and ways. It results in his explanation both of original and of actual sin.