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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2017

WILLIAM LANE CRAIG
WILLIAM LANE CRAIG*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Houston Baptist University, 7502 Fondren Road, Houston, TX, 77074, USA and Department of Philosophy, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, La Mirada, CA 90639, USA
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e-mail: william.lane.craig@biola.edu
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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.

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Religious Studies , Volume 54 , Issue 4 , December 2018 , pp. 509 - 526
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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