The Taste of Death and the Life of Grace is divided into two parts. The first is based on Hebrews 2:9, Christ’s tasting death for all. The second part is on Philippians 2:5–8, Christ’s emptying of himself in the Incarnation.
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.