P. T. Forsyth

thumb|The Cross of Christ...is God's only self-justification in such a world. Peter Taylor Forsyth (1848–1921) was a Scottish theologian. Quotes God's account of Himself, of His way with man, and of the purpose He infuses into history, His account of His will, on the scale and depth of the great convulsive judgments, is in Christ and His Cross, or it is nowhere. It is in the Cross which so many are disposed to treat as an incident, or at most an object-lesson, though one falsified by all the stern course of history. The Cross of Christ, with its judgment-grace, its tragic love, its grievous glory, its severe salvation, and its 'finished work,' is God's only self-justification in such a world. The Justification of God: Lectures for War-Time on a Christian Theodicy (London: Duckworth & Co, 1916), ch. 1, pp. 31–32 Let it be owned that in cases it has happened, and does happen, that the passion for poring on a future life has starved the passion due to this life, and bleached it of reality. (Though, to tell the truth, I wish more people pored on these things now.) It has taken the monk out of his helping place in the world into a hiding place; and it has put him into a cellular self, regardless of either the goods or the duties of this life. This Life and the Next (London: Independent Press, 1946), p. 23 External links