Positive Preaching and Modern Mind

by Peter Taylor Forsyth

Publisher:

A. C. Armstrong and Son

, 1907

Overview

“The Christian preacher is not the successor of the Greek orator, but of the Hebrew prophet. The orator comes with but an inspiration, the prophet comes with a revelation.” Positive Preaching and Modern Mind is a series of lectures Forsyth delivered to students about to enter into the ministry. Three things are discussed in their various aspects in the nine lectures: the preacher, the gospel, and the age. For over one hundred years these lectures • on preaching have remained popular. Lectures include: • The Preacher and His Charter • The Authority of the Preacher • The Preacher and His Church, or, Preaching as Worship • The Preacher and the Age • The Preacher and Religious Reality • Preaching Positive and Liberal • Preaching Positive and Modern • The Preacher and Modern Ethic • The Moral Poignancy of the Cross • Epilogue

Contents

Top Highlights

“The Christian preacher is not the successor of the Greek orator, but of the Hebrew prophet. The orator comes with but an inspiration, the prophet comes with a revelation.” (Page 3)

“With preaching Christianity stands or falls because it is the declaration of a Gospel. Nay more—far more—it is the Gospel prolonging and declaring itself.” (Page 5)

“Where your object is to secure your audience, rather than your Gospel, preaching is sure to suffer.” (Page 4)

“I will venture to say that with its preaching Christianity stands or falls.” (Page 3)

“What I say will not hold good if the chief gift to the world is the Church and its sacraments, instead of the work and its word. Wherever you have the ritual sacraments to the front the preacher is to the rear, if he is there at all.” (Page 6)

Product Details

• Title: Positive Preaching and Modern Mind
• Author: Peter Taylor Forsyth
• Publisher: A. C. Armstrong and Son
• Print Publication Date: 1907
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Preaching
• Resource ID: LLS:POSPRCHMNDFORSYTH
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T05:09:21Z

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.