عنوان

P.T. Forsyth, the Positive Gospel, and the Church

شماره

LA109575

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

P.T. Forsyth, the Positive Gospel, and the Church

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Angus Paddison

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

The Congregationalist theologian P.T. Forsyth urgently implored the Church to attend to what he termed 'the Positive Gospel'. The positive gospel was a gospel of finality, looked to the cross as God's holy judgement on the wreck of sin, and viewed the work of Jesus as an incursion into human life rather than a placid evolution from within. A robust understanding of the Church and its ministry flourished or withered in proportion to its concentration on this gospel. A church which skipped past the positive gospel would find that it was exercising a ministry of impression rather than regeneration. On the other hand, a church sustained by the positive gospel would carry out its vocation with a healthy combination of decisiveness and litheness. There is much of value in Forsyth's porous understanding of the relationship between the positive gospel and the Church, but lurking in Forsyth's language is the lure to neglect the embodied reality of the Church and its ministry. The Congregationalist theologian P.T. Forsyth urgently implored the Church to attend to what he termed 'the Positive Gospel'. The positive gospel was a gospel of finality, looked to the cross as God's holy judgement on the wreck of sin, and viewed the work of Jesus as an incursion into human life rather than a placid evolution from within. A robust understanding of the Church and its ministry flourished or withered in proportion to its concentration on this gospel. A church which skipped past the positive gospel would find that it was exercising a ministry of impression rather than regeneration. On the other hand, a church sustained by the positive gospel would carry out its vocation with a healthy combination of decisiveness and litheness. There is much of value in Forsyth's porous understanding of the relationship between the positive gospel and the Church, but lurking in Forsyth's language is the lure to neglect the embodied reality of the Church and its ministry.

تاريخ نشر

2009

توصيف ظاهري

28-47

عنوان

Ecclesiology

شماره جلد

5/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1745-5316

اصطلاح موضوعی

CHURCH UNITY

اصطلاح موضوعی

CROSS

اصطلاح موضوعی

P.T. FORSYTH

اصطلاح موضوعی

PREACHING

اصطلاح موضوعی

SALVATION

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Angus Paddison

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/174553108X341279

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y