The Justification of God: Lectures for War-Time on a Christian Theodicy

by Peter Taylor Forsyth

Publisher:

Charles Scribner’s Sons

, 1917

Overview

The Justification of God: Lectures for War-Time on a Christian Theodicy appeared during the height of World War I, when many Christians were having trouble reconciling their faith in God with the horrors of war. It is during such troubling times that the church is in need of competent leaders—those trained to minister during crises with a historical, universal, ethical, theological, and eternal understanding of the church. But The Justification of God is also a reassuring work, for in it Forsyth reiterates the eternal truths that Christ’s death on the cross has provided for us during hard times—even in times of war. “To justify God is the best and deepest way to fortify men. It provides the moral resource and stay which is the one thing at last. With open face to see the glory of God in things as they are, to blink nothing of the terror and yet to be sure of the Kingdom of God with all our heart—that is more for the courage of man than any nationalism or any patriotism when heart fails and grief benumbs.”

Contents

Top Highlights

“And there is no theodicy for the world except in a theology of the Cross. The only final theodicy is that self-justification of God which was fundamental to His justification of man. No reason of man can justify God in a world like this.” (Pages 124–125)

“demands that revelation be the self-justification of God.” (Page 122)

“upon whose rule all things wait, and may wait long. It is no slack knot that the Saviour has to undo.” (Page 126)

“This Cross became not only a rescue from a strait but the principle and measure of the whole world.” (Page 52)

“theodicy of the universe are the final questions and the most fascinating for philosophy” (Page 137)

Product Details

• Title: The Justification of God: Lectures for War-Time on a Christian Theodicy
• Author: Peter Taylor Forsyth
• Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons
• Print Publication Date: 1917
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Theodicy
• Resource ID: LLS:JUSTFCTNGODFORSYTH
• Resource Type: text.monograph.lecture
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T04:13:53Z

About Peter Taylor 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 University of Aberdeen and then in Göttingen. 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.