Title

Is penal substitution incoherent? An examination of Mark Murphy's criticisms

School/Department

Talbot School of Theology

Publication Date

6-2017

Abstract

Some critics of the doctrine of penal substitution have alleged that the doctrine is incoherent because punishment entails an attitude of condemnation or censure towards the person punished, which is impossible in the case of Christ. It is shown that this objection is multiply flawed and that a number of viable ways of avoiding the alleged incoherence are available to the penal substitution theorist.

Keywords

Doctrine of penal substitution;

Publication Title

Religious Studies

Volume

54

Issue

4

First Page

509

Last Page

526

DOI of Published Version

10.1017/S003441251700018X

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