Francis Turretin
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Oct 30, 2026
William Lane CraigGUEST
But then, given the Protestant Reformers' doctrine of the imputation of our sins to Christ, Christ is legally liable for our sins and so may satisfy divine justice by being duly punished for those sins.
William Lane CraigGUEST
In the Reformers' view, Christ did not merely suffer the punishment due us for our sins, Rather, as the Swiss Reformed theologian François Turretin explained, our sins themselves were imputed to Christ so that he might be justly punished for them.
William Lane CraigGUEST
We can think of the imputation of our sins to Christ as a case of vicarious liability of a superior for his subordinate.
William Lane CraigGUEST
Just as in civil and criminal law, a superior can be held vicariously liable for the wrongdoing of his subordinate, so God held Christ vicariously liable for our sins.
William Lane CraigGUEST
in that he attends the meeting in our place, but he is also our representative in that he does not vote instead of us, but on our behalf, so that we vote.
William Lane CraigGUEST
The combination is an inclusionary place-taking.
William Lane CraigGUEST
Turretin believes that Christ, in bearing our punishment, was both our substitute and representative before God.
William Lane CraigGUEST
He states, "...the curse and punishment of sin, which he received upon himself in our stead, secures to us blessing and righteousness with God." in virtue of that most strict union between us and him, by which, as our sins are imputed to him, so in turn his obedience and righteousness are imputed to us." This relation is not one of simple substitution.
Gray SutantoHOST
You can find it all over the place in the Leiden Synopsis.
Gray SutantoHOST
Futius, Junius, I mean, everybody talks about this, Van Maastricht, Turretin, and so on.
Gray SutantoHOST
And sins per se are those actions that are formally sinful in and of themselves.
Gray SutantoHOST
So, for instance, like debauchery, lying, murder, these are sins per se.
Nick NeedhamGUEST
And that's kind of… That's how he wrote it.
Nick NeedhamGUEST
That's the method of Turretin, the elenctic method.
Nick NeedhamGUEST
So that means his systematic theology deals with specific questions.
Nick NeedhamGUEST
He's not writing like, here's my treatment of creation.
Tom SculthorpeHOST
So why call it law?
Drew SparksGUEST
Yeah, because things infallibly pursue ends, says Francis Turretin, right? There's certain ends that things pursue and they pursue by nature.
Drew SparksGUEST
And when they don't, we go, huh, something's wrong here.
Drew SparksGUEST
When an eye doesn't see, when a kidney doesn't operate as it should, we don't go, hmm.
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Drew SparksGUEST
And you'll see some who say, yep, that's true about the whole deck of law.
Drew SparksGUEST
It's all a reflection of natural law.
Drew SparksGUEST
natural moral law in that instance would be the same in substance okay the same content of each and they would say it's promulgated or published in different ways so is it published to you via your nature as a principle of action or is it given to you via verbal revelation from outside of you And is there a harmony between those two things? Someone like Aquinas, and I would argue individuals like Francis Turretin, are going to say, yep, the substance remains the same.
Drew SparksGUEST
Why? Because man's nature remains the same.
R. T. MullinsHOST
So thus far, I have discussed the distinction between God's natural knowledge and God's free knowledge.
R. T. MullinsHOST
So the Calvinist Francis Turretin says that God's natural knowledge is of things that are, quote, merely possible, whereas God's free knowledge is, quote, knowledge of future things that God has freely determined to bring about.
R. T. MullinsHOST
Now, Molinism is famous for adding in another logical moment between natural and free knowledge.
R. T. MullinsHOST
This is why it's called middle knowledge, because it's subsequent to natural knowledge, but prior to free knowledge.
Matthew EverhardHOST
And this works like a lot of other great systematic theologies.
Matthew EverhardHOST
If you've ever read Burkhoff before or Grudem, or Hodge, or Turretin, or Calvin's Institutes.
Matthew EverhardHOST
It's organized with all of the major heads of reformed systematic theology, but done so in a way that is very, very readable.
Matthew EverhardHOST
And what I like about Beakey and Smalley is they constantly refer to the Puritans and to the reformers, often quoting their first source.
Conley OwensHOST
But since in the Reformation, people switched away from looking so much at tradition, instead making scripture primary, since they are no longer studying The Sentences, which had a heading for simony, instead, uh, there was not the same reason to continue that study.
Conley OwensHOST
And if you know about how the study of systematic theology changed, it switched to, during the Reformation, what's known as the loci communes, right? The different common places, so Turretin and others, their systematic theologies are addressing certain heads of theology that are, uh, that were different than the sets that were addressed before by tradition with The Sentences.
Conley OwensHOST
Before, there was a specific heading for simony, and then later, just restarting fresh, picking what the primary topics were that needed to be addressed, simony just didn't come out in them.
Conley OwensHOST
And so the standard place where you would address it just didn't exist anymore.
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Bradlee DeanHOST
Puritan preacher John Owens rightly stated, "To say that a man is born again by the exercise of his own free will is to say that the dead can raise themselves and that the blind can give themselves sight.
Bradlee DeanHOST
This is the very root of the Arminian error which ascribes the first act of conversion under the will of man and not unto the grace of God." And then we have Francis Turretine who said, "Effectual calling is an act of the grace of God in Christ by which he calls men dead in sin and lost in Adam through the preaching of the gospel and the power of the Holy Spirit to union with Christ and to salvation obtained in him."
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Bradlee DeanHOST
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Kevin DeYoungHOST
That's yet to happen, Revelation 11, 15.
Kevin DeYoungHOST
Christ reigns, here's Turretin, differently in the pious and in the wicked.
Kevin DeYoungHOST
And in both, it is by a, quote, spiritual, not an earthly sway.
Kevin DeYoungHOST
So as the risen son who conquered sin and death, all authority in heaven and earth has been given to Christ.
Bradlee DeanHOST
Puritan preacher John Owens rightly stated, "To say that a man is born again by the exercise of his own free will is to say that the dead can raise themselves and that the blind can give themselves sight.
Bradlee DeanHOST
This is the very root of the Arminian error, which ascribes the first act of conversion under the will of man and not unto the grace of God." And then we have Francis Turretin who said, "Effectual calling is an act of the grace of God in Christ by which he calls men dead in sin and lost in Adam through the preaching of the gospel and the power of the Holy Spirit to union with Christ and to salvation obtained in him."
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