The Beauty of Holiness
Book “Humility: The Beauty of Holiness”
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• Write from a Christian perspective
• Turabian
• Post a thread to include the following 5 prompts:
o Use separate bolded section titles to break up the post showing where each
point is addressed:
1. Approximately, what percentage of the book you read in preparation for this
discussion?
2. What is Murray’s central thesis in the book? Defend your answer.
3. In chapter 2, Murray writes, “If humility be the first, the all-including grace of the life of
Jesus, if humility be the secret of His atonement, then the health and strength of our
spiritual life will entirely depend upon our putting this grace first too, and making
humility the chief thing we admire in him, the chief thing we ask of him, the one thing
for which we sacrifice all else.”
a. Do you agree or disagree with this statement and how is his argument here
developed through the rest of the book?
b. Whether you agree or not with his argument, wherein Scripture could someone
argue that “humility be the first, the all-including grace of the life of Jesus”?
4. Which chapter did you find most convicting and why?
5. Which chapter did you find most encouraging and why?