Trust and Obey: The Norman Shepherd Controversy

Ian Hewitson’s Trust and Obey, is a full treatment of the Norman Shepherd controversy at Westminster Theological Seminary. The point of the book is that WTS “did not have the necessary grounds on which to remove Professor Shepherd from his teaching post (19).” The book considers vast amount of reports and faculty minutes of those long years of trial.
John Frame writes that this is an “accurate and clear account of the matter (9).” Those who have long watched the Federal Vision controversy unfold over the years will realize that Shepherd’s name is one mentioned quite often in denominational reports. Perhaps this book and the research will add greater clarity to a discussion often misunderstood.

Robert Dabney on Imputation

"It may be said, without affecting excessive subtlety of definition,
that by imputation of Christ's righteousness, we only mean that
Christ's righteousness is so accounted to the sinner, as that he
receives thereupon the legal consequences to which it entitles."

"All are agreed that, when the Bible says, 'the iniquity of us all was
laid on Christ,' or that 'He bare our sins,' or 'was made sin for us,'
it is only our guilt and not our moral attribute of sinfulness which
was imputed. So it seems to me far more reasonable and scriptural to
suppose that, in the imputation of Christ's righteousness, it is not
the attribute of righteousness in Christ which is imputed, but that
which is the exact counterpart of guilt--the title to acquittal." ~
Systematic Theology in Lecture LIV (pg. 641 of the Zondervan edition)