Title: Attributes and atonement : the holy love of God in the theology of P.T. Forsyth /
Authors: McCurdy, Leslie.
Publisher: Paternoster,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Forsyth, Peter Taylor,; Forsyth, Peter Taylor, Bibliography.; God History of doctrines; Atonement History of doctrines
Contents: P. T. Forsyth and God's holy love. Sampling the simplicity, exploring the grammar ; 'Holy love' : an expression with a history ; The introduction of holy love in Forsyth's theology ; The experience of holy love -- Literature survey. Forsyth's view of atonement and attributes in academic context ; Early response to Forsyth's theology ; The post-war renaissance in Forsyth study ; Holiness, love, and holy love : the debate illustrated -- The knowledge of God. The possibility of a natural theology ; Conscience and Christ ; Conscience and correlation ; Conscience as a point of contact ; The power of sin, and the limited value of general revelation ; The Gospel reconstructs our view of conscience ; Implications for the present study ; A Christological starting-point ; A question of ontology ; The incarnation and the atonement ; The centrality of the cross -- The attributes of God. Procedural difficulties and possibilities ; Revealed rather than discovered ; Two representative attributes ; The fatherhood of God ; Expressions of the dynamic God ; God is personal - and free ; Moral unity and functional distinctions -- The prominence of love. The prominent place of God's love in Forsyth's writings ; The characteristics of God's love ; An assessment of God's love in Forsyth's theology ; The inadequacy of love alone as a description of God ; The necessity of a wider conception of God's nature -- The importance of holiness. An accent on holiness ; "The offering" : an atoning sacrifice ; "A holy self" : the sinlessness and obedience of Jesus ; "To a holy God" : the acknowledgement of the father's holiness ; "From sin's side" : the human context -- The centrality of holy love. A strife of attributes? ; The note of judgment ; Godforsakenness : the taste of spiritual death ; The grammar of holy love ; The harmony of God's attributes ; Trinitarian holy love ; The victory of holy love -- The future of holy love. The twentieth-century progress of an idea ; A theological future.