The Work of Christ
Overview
A rising trend in churches are favoring an undogmatic Christianity which is without apostolic or evangelical substance, cultivating a certain emulsion of sympathetic mysticism, intuitional belief, and benevolent action. Among lay minds of a devout and social but impatiently practical habit, this is likely to spread, particularly among those whose public interests get the upper hand of ethical and historical insight and denude their religion of most of the reflection it demands. A healthy church cannot survive with these principles. It is upon faith alone, given by the cross alone, that a church can live—upon a positive New Testament Gospel. Of that Gospel the church is the trustee. The work of Christ, rightly understood, is the final spiritual condition of all the work we may aspire to do in converting society to the kingdom of God. In seven lectures, Forsyth argues for the steadfastness of the church, and for the re-focus of its teachings to be once again Christ centered.
Top Highlights
“as it is holy; and spirituality is Christian only as it meets the conditions of Holy Love in the way the Cross did” (Page viii)
“cultivates a certain emulsion of sympathetic mysticism, intuitional belief, and benevolent action” (Page vii)
“numbers may grow of those favouring an undogmatic Christianity” (Pages vi–vii)
“Upon undogmatic, undenominational religion no Church can live” (Page vii)
- Title: The Work of Christ
- Author: Peter Taylor Forsyth
- Publishers: Hodder and Stoughton, Westminster
- Print Publication Date: n.d.
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Atonement; Jesus Christ › Person and offices
- Resource ID: LLS:WRKCHRSTFORSYTH
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T15:57:57Z
