Like a tree with many branches - 4 February 2010 |
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These are the questions for week 12 of the Guided Reading Course.
John Murray, The Imputation of Adam’s Sin, ch 3-4
Section IV
1. What is the question under discussion in this section? How does it follow logically from the flow of the argument so far?
2. What is ‘mediate imputation’?
3. What was Samuel Hopkins’s position? What attraction might it hold? What is wrong with it?
4. What underlying thread to Nathanael Emmons and Timothy Dwight have in common?
5. What did Charles Hodge and William Cunningham think Jonathan Edwards believed? What did B. B. Warfield think?
6. How did Edwards’s position differ from mediate imputation? How did it differ from immediate imputation?
7. How might Edwards rebut the claim that the imputation of Adam’s sin to his descendants is unjust?
8. What biblical evidence does Murray adduce in favour of the doctrine of immediate imputation?
9. Does the fourth of Murray’s arguments in favour of immediate imputation challenge Jonathan Edwards’s position?
Section V
10. What is the question under discussion in this section? How does it follow logically from the flow of the argument so far?
11. What did Charles Hodge believe is imputed to Adam’s descendants? What is the problem with this view?
12. What do you make of Murray’s attempts to answer the question posed in this section?
Jonathan Edwards: ‘both guilt, or exposedness to punishment, and also depravity of heart, came upon Adam’s posterity just as they came upon him, like a tree with many branches.’
Posted by Steve Jeffery · Topics: Guided Reading Course, Minister's Blog