The Christian Ethic of War

by Peter Taylor Forsyth

Publisher:

Longman

, 1916

Overview

In The Christian Ethic of War, P. T. Forsyth looks to Christ’s atonement for the justification of war by Christians. “I do not aim here at expounding that Atonement, but at working out some of its moral implicates and results on the public and national side—a side on which a Christianity based only on Christ’s teaching has been criticized as defective.” He explores these results in the following chapters: • Killing No Murder • The Judgment of Crime by Crime • War and Love • Judgment By the Saints • Passive Resistance • The Moral Sanction of Force • Christian Love as Public Righteousness • Christian Ethic Lay and Historic • Christian Ethic Historic and National • Justification and Judgment • The Judgment on the Cross and in the Field

Product Details

• Title: The Christian Ethic of War
• Author: Peter Taylor Forsyth
• Publisher: Longman
• Print Publication Date: 1916
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: War; Christian ethics
• Resource ID: LLS:CHRETHWARFORSYTH
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T17:30:57Z

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.