Peter Taylor Forsyth, also known as P. T. Forsyth, (1848-1921) was a Scottish theologian, considered one of the most brilliant and insightful English-speaking theologians of the early twentieth century.
This book is organized as follows:
Part I. The Church
I. Introductory. Holy Church, Free Church, and Sound Democracy
II. The Church and Its Unity
III. The Need of a Church Theory for Church Unity
IV. The Church and History
V. The Kingdom of God
VI. The United States—of the Church
VII. The Ministry Sacramental
Part II. The Sacraments
VIII. The Place of the Sacraments in the Teaching of St. Paul
IX. Debased Treatment of Baptism
X. New Testament Baptism
XI. Infant Baptism
XII. Communion
XIII. Communion—Continued
XIV. Communion—the Mystic Note
From The Soul of Prayer The Soul of Prayer book description:
P. T. Forsyth is sometimes described as an English pre-cursor to Karl Barth. He was born in 1848 to a Scottish family of humble origins and later in life attended Aberdeen University, where he graduated with first-class honours in classical literature in 1869. In 1876 he was ordained and called to minister in Shipley, Yorkshire. In his early ministry in the Congregational Church, Forsyth fought orthodoxy and sought for the right to rethink Christian theology and pursue liberal thought. In 1878, however, Forsyth experienced a conversion from, in his own words, "being a Christian to being a believer, from a lover of love to an object of grace." A profound awareness of pastoral responsibility was awakened which radically altered the the course of his ministry. His conversion thrust him from the leadership of liberalism to a recovery of the theology of grace. Quickly, he became one of the better-known figures in British Nonconformity. In 1894, he received a call to Emmanuel College in Cambridge, where he preached his famous sermon, "Holy Father" in 1896. In 1901, he accepted a position as principal of Hackney Theological College, London where he remained until he died in 1921. Over his lifetime Forsyth published 25 books and more than 260 articles. He is often credited with recovering for his generation the reality and true dimensions of the grace of God.(... Show more