The Work of Christ by FORSYTH, Peter Taylor - 1958-01-01

Independent Press, 1958-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. Independent Press [Published Date: 1958]. Hardcover, xxxii, 244 pp. Second Edition, Sixth Impression. Acceptable+ in acceptable+ condition. Green cloth covered boards with black lettering on front and spine. Light bumping, scuffing and aging to edges of covers. Binding tight. Previous owner's name and date in pencil on front free end paper and light underlining and margin notes in pencil throughout the book. Some pages have light creasing along fore-edge as well. Dust jacket has a few 1" or less nicks and tears and creasing along edges. Light to moderate overall scuffing, aging and soiling to jacket as well. NOT price clipped. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. A good reading copy. Includes black and white Frontis-piece illustration of Forsyth. Peter Taylor Forsyth, also known as P. T. Forsyth, (1848 - 1921) was a Scottish theologian. The son of a postman, Forsyth studied at the Univ of Aberdeen and then in Gottingen (under Albrect Ritschl). He was ordained into the Congregational ministry and served churches as pastor at Bradford, Manchester, Leicester and Cambridge, before becoming Principal of Hackney College, London (later subsumed into the University of London in 1901. Contents include: Foreword by John S. Whale; Memoir by Jessie Forsyth Andrews; The Difference between God's sacrifice and Man's; The Great Sacrificial Work is to Reconcile; Reconciliation: Philosophic and Christian; Reconciliation, Atonement, and Judgment; The Cross the great Confessional; The Precise Problem To-day; The Threefold Cord; Addendum: Note to Lecture IV. [From front Jacket flap] Lectures to young ministers. "My hope is to be of some use to those ministers who are still at a stage when they are seeking more footing on such matters than they have been provided with in mere Biblical or Historical Theology" [From Author's Preface]. "So far from being out of date, his work anticipates, by nearly a quarter of a century, the 'realism' of our modern theology, without the extravagances into which it has been led by the excessive logic of Barthianism" (Dr. John Whale).