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Himself, and He did so in the Cross of His Son." Forsyth began formulating what he called "God's own theodicy" with Romans 1:17: "the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith". There he found the righteousness of God revealed in the Christ who "is the theodicy of God and the justifier both of God and the ungodly."
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for the legal and juridical aspects of the cross; his interest centers on the manner in which the cross is inextricably linked with “the whole moral fabric and movement of the universe.” The doctrine of the atonement is inseparable from “the rightness of things.”
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Before the start of World War I, widely held views about God and human progress muted the theodic question. “Popular religion” had preached a God whose sole purpose was “to promote and crown development.” The “doctrine of progress” (first formulated by
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Forsyth's understanding of "God's own theodicy" as enabling a right relationship with God rather than a philosophical justification of God contrasts two alternative connotations of the word 'theodicy'. Theodicy derives from the Greek words
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305:'The Person and Place of Jesus Christ: The Congregational Union Lecture for 1909'. London: Congregational Union of England and Wales/Hodder & Stoughton, 1909; London: Independent Press, 1948.
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to the bar of God’s own promise. In Christ, God is fully justified by
Himself. If any man thinks he has anything to suffer in the flesh, God more. In all their afflictions He was more afflicted.
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267:'Religion in Recent Art: Being Expository Lectures on Rossetti, Burne Jones, Watts, Holman Hunt, and Wagner'. New York: AMS Press, 1972 (reprinted from the 3rd edition, 1905; 1st ed. 1889)
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While many of
Forsyth's most significant insights have largely gone ignored, not a few consider him to be among the greatest English-speaking theologians of the early twentieth century.
323:'The Principle of Authority in Relation to Certainty, Sanctity and Society: An Essay in the Philosophy of Experimental Religion'. London: Independent Press, 1952 (1913).
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264:'Pulpit Parables for Young Hearers'. With J. A. Hamilton. Manchester/London: Brook & Chrystal/Simpkin, Marshall & Co.; Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1888.
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in God's "creation must the way upward lie through suffering?" "The tactics of providence cannot be traced," but "His purpose we have, and His heart. We have
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270:'The Charter of the Church: Six Lectures on the Spiritual Principle of Nonconformity'. London: Alexander & Shepheard, 1896.
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332:'The Justification of God: Lectures for War-Time on a Christian Theodicy'. London: Independent Press, 1957.
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344:'Christian Aspects of Evolution'. London: The Epworth Press, 1950.
329:'The Christian Ethic of War'. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 1999 (1916).
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