Of the state of commitment relative to Christian anthropology Reinhold Niebuhr has written, “The Christian doctrine of sin in its classical form offends both rationalists and moralists by maintaining the seemingly absurd position that man sins inevitably and by a fateful necessity but that he is nevertheless to be held responsible for actions which are prompted by an ineluctable fate.”1 This classical formulation as it has been worked out in Augustine, Luther, and Calvin is arbitrary and inflexible,