Total depravity

=== In Arminianism ===
[[Arminianism]] also accepts a doctrine of total depravity, although not identical to the Calvinist position. Total depravity was affirmed by the [[Five articles of Remonstrance]], by [[Jacobus Arminius]] himself, and by [[John Wesley]], who strongly identified with Arminius through publication of his periodical ''The Arminian'' and also advocated a strong doctrine of inability.<ref>Sermon 44, [http://www.ccel.org/ccel/wesley/sermons.v.xliv.html#v.xliv-p0.2 "Original Sin."]; compare verse 4 of [[Charles Wesley]]'s [[hymn]] [http://gbgm-umc.org/umhistory/wesley/hymns/umh363.stm "And Can It Be"].</ref> ''The Methodist Quarterly Review'' states that:
{{quote|It is not sufficiently known, we opine, that Methodists—the genuine Arminians of the present—do not entirely agree with this view of depravity. To what has been said, as being the Calvinist view of the total depravity of our nature, we do heartily assent, with the following exceptions:—First. We do not think that all men ''continue totally depraved until their regeneration''. Secondly. We think man, ''under the atonement'', is not, properly speaking, in a state of nature. He is not left to the unalleviated evils of total depravity. The atonement has not only secured grace ''for'' him, but a measure ''in'' him, by virtue of which he not only has moral light, but is often incited to good desires, and well-intended efforts to do what is perceived to be the divine will.<ref name=MQR>{{cite journal|editor=George Peck|year=1847|title=titre=Chalmers' Natural Theology |journal=The Methodist Quarterly Review|publisher=Lane & Tippett|location=New York|volume=XXIX|page=444}}</ref>}}
Some Reformed theologians have mistakenly used the term "[[Arminianism]]" to include some who hold the [[Semipelagianism|Semipelagian]] doctrine of [[limited depravity]], which allows for an "island of righteousness" in human hearts that is uncorrupted by sin and able to accept God's offer of salvation without a special dispensation of grace.<ref>{{cite book |last=Demarest |first=Bruce |title=The Cross and Salvation: The Doctrine of Salvation |publisher=Crossway Books |year=2006 |isbn=978-1-58134-812-5 |location=Wheaton, Illinois |page=56}}</ref> Although Arminius and Wesley both vehemently rejected this view, it has sometimes inaccurately been lumped together with theirs (particularly by Calvinists) because of other similarities between their respective systems such as [[conditional election]], [[unlimited atonement]], and prevenient grace. In particular, prevenient grace is viewed by some as giving humans back the freedom to follow God in one way or another.