The Gospel of Life: Thoughts Introductory to the Study of Christian Doctrine
Overview
This volume distills lectures given by B. F. Westcott to students at Cambridge on Christian doctrine. He notes that “the thoughts which they contain have been constantly tested in private discussion, and I have found them guidance and support in looking at the spectacle of the world—of man and of nature—full as it is of sufferings and sorrows and failures.” This volume explains how “Christianity offers in a real human life the thoughts by which other religions live. Nature herself does not give an answer to the riddles which she proposes; but the whole life of men points to the answer which Christianity has given.… Christianity is in life and through life. It is not an abstract system but a vital power, active through an organized body.”
- Title: The Gospel of Life: Thoughts Introductory to the Study of Christian Doctrine
- Author: Brooke Foss Westcott
- Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
- Print Publication Date: 1892
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Theology, doctrinal › Introductions
- Resource ID: LLS:GSPLLFCHRSDCTRN
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-13T22:32:09Z
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.