“The theology of one generation can never be divorced from historical antecedents. This is true whether the theology espoused is radically divergent from that of the past or progressively and constructively in agreement with it. When divergent its character can be assessed only in terms of that from which it is divergent. And, if there is agreement, the foundations of the past continue to be those of the present. This is but to indicate how indispensable to theological study is historical theology.” — John Murray, Foreword to George P. Hutchinson, The Problem of Original Sin in American Presbyterian Theology (1974)