Christus Consummator: Some Aspects of the Work and Person of Christ in Relation to Modern Thought
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Overview
This volume collects sermons preached in Westminster Abbey during Brooke Foss Westcott’s residence in August 1885 and January 1886. Westcott endeavors to guide readers to the sure hope through trials that comes through “patience and through comfort of the Scriptures.” Drawing from the book of Hebrews, he presents some lessons which “show how much seems to be loss in regard to our religious circumstances proves to be gain by turning our minds from things temporal and provisional to Christ Himself.” The appendix contains a sermon preached at Cambridge, designed to give practical application of the teaching. Contents: • Lessons from an Epoch of Change • The Trials of a New Age • The Destiny of Man Fulfilled by Christ through Suffering • The King Priest • The Universal Society • The New Covenant • Aspects of the Incarnation • The Incarnation of a Subject for Devout Study • The Incarnation and the Creation • The Incarnation and the Fall • The Incarnation and Nature • The Incarnation and Life • Appendix: The Vision of God the Call of the Prophet
- Title: Christus Consummator: Some Aspects of the Work and Person of Christ in Relation to Modern Thought
- Author: Brooke Foss Westcott
- Edition: Third Edition
- Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
- Print Publication Date: 1890
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 176
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Sermons, English
- Resource ID: LLS:CHRSTSCNSMTHGHT
- Resource Type: text.monograph.sermons
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-01-08T23:21:41Z
Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901) was a British bishop, biblical scholar, and theologian serving as bishop of Durham from 1890 until his death.
Westcott studied at Trinity College in Cambridge where he graduated in 1848. He stayed at Trinity, where in 1849 he obtained his fellowship and was ordained deacon and priest. He received honorary degrees from Oxford in 1881 and Edinburgh 1883. In 1890, he became the bishop of Durham.
He has authored several works, including Introduction to the New Testament in the Original Greek, A General View of the History of the English Bible, Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament, and Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians.