Hello. 1. Was Adam created in a natural state of righteousness (Reformed) or was his nature supernaturally endowed with righteousness through grace (Catholic) at creation? 2. Is there a distinction in the imagio dei between being made in the image of God (rational intellect and will) and the likeness of God (the supernatural endowment of grace given to man which rightly orders his lower bodily passions toward perfection) as the Catholics say, or is the imagio dei more of a unity such that before the fall reason and the bodily appetites did not even differ as the Reformed say? 3. Was the loss of original justice a loss of the supernatural grace given to Adam before the fall, so that it wounded his nature, as Catholics say, or was it an entire corruption in the image of God in man such that it fundamentally corrupted and totally depraved his nature as Reformed say? 4. Is concupiscence itself sin as the Reformed say, or is it only sin when assented to as the Catholics say? 5 (bonus). Is the intellect as power of the soul, as those who hold to bipartite theology say, or is it a separate part of man such that it constitutes a whole new aspect called "spirit" as those who hold to tripartite theology say?
I like Catholic anthropology better because it has more empirical support imo. It's easier to reconcile it with science imho as well. I find the debates between Catholics and Calvinists on this question to mirror exactly the debates between the Peripatetics and the Stoics over human nature during the Middle period of Platonism. Really cool shit.
