11 November 1921 A.D. Mr. (Rev.) P.T. ForsythSummary
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.
Biography
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Forsyth was born May 12, 1848,
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland died November 11, 1921, London, England. The
son of a postman, Forsyth studied at the University of Aberdeen and at
Göttingen, where he was deeply influenced by the German Protestant theologian
Albrecht Ritschl. After serving several Congregational churches in England,
including Emmanuel Church, Cambridge, he became principal of Hackney
Theological College in London. He began as a theologically liberal but
gradually modified his position to one that resembled most the “positive
theology” found in Germany.
His Positive Preaching and the
Modern Mind (1907) and Lectures on the Church and the Sacraments (1917)
recalled Protestants to the richness of their own teaching about the church at
a time when liberalism and evangelicalism together were threatening to obscure
it. Forsyth's most famous book, The Person and Place of Jesus Christ
(1909), attempted to moralize dogma, to express in terms of modern personal experience the
meaning of the doctrine of Christ's divinity. In Christ on Parnassus
(1911), dealing with theology and the arts, and in The Justification of God
(1916), he considered the relation of Christian faith to the questions of his
day.
He reasserted the classic
faith of the Reformation in terms appropriate to his own time, bringing the
word 'grace' back into protestant theology and showing anew what was meant by
the sovereignty of God as revealed in the Holy Love in Christ. Forsyth
anticipated many insights characteristic of Barth. Through Barth's work,
Forsyth often misunderstood in his time, gained new attention
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