God of Holy Love

The God of Christian faith is, according to Peter Taylor Forsyth, a God of holy, righteous love. As a result, God's intervention in human life is morally robust, being in search of the transformation of its recipients toward holy love. Its high point is in the cross of Jesus Christ. This book contains twenty of Forsyth's essays that clarify the nature and manifestation of God's holy love. Forsyth contends that God is an active personal agent who desires interpersonal fellowship with humans, under the authority of divine holy love. He attends to the experience of God in moral conscience, where one can experience forgiveness and redemption by God. He challenges readers to consider whether their experience includes an encounter with a God who manifests holy love.



Peter Taylor Forsyth (1848-1921) is among the most insightful and challenging of modern theologians. Ordained to the ministry in 1876, he served as a pastor in London, Manchester, and Cambridge, before taking an appointment as Principal of Hackney College, London in 1901. His major books include The Person and Place of Jesus Christ, The Principle of Authority, and Positive Preaching and Modern Mind. Paul K. Moser is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of Understanding Religious Experience (forthcoming), The God Relationship (2017), The Severity of God (2013), The Evidence for God (2010), and The Elusive God (2008). Benjamin Nasmith is a recent graduate of Briercrest Seminary. He is co-editor (with Paul K. Moser) of God in Experience: Essays of Hugh Ross Mackintosh (Pickwick, 2018).



Preface Introduction: P.T. Forsyth in Focus Part 1: Atonement and Revelation 1 The Atonement in Modern Religious Thought 2 Immanence and Incarnation 3 The Inner Life of Christ 4 Forgiveness through Atonement the Essential of Evangelical Christianity 5 Faith, Metaphysic, and Incarnation Part 2: Christ and Christology 6 Revelation and the Person of Christ 7 The Disappointment of the Cross 8 Christ and the Christian Principle 9 Christ's Person and His Cross 10 The Christianity of Christ and Christ our Christianity Part 3: New Life in Christ 11 Regeneration, Creation, and Miracle I 12 Regeneration, Creation, and Miracle II 13 Veracity, Reality, and Regeneration 14 The Conversion of the "Good" 15 The Cross of Christ as the Moral Principle of Society Part 4: Faith, Theology, and Religion Faith and Mind Intellectualism and Faith 18 The Moralization of Religion 19 Unity and Theology: A Liberal Evangelicalism the True Catholicism 20 Religion Private and Public Bibliography Name Index Subject Index