P.T. Forsyth

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P.T. Forsyth


Born
in The United Kingdom
May 12, 1848

Died
November 11, 1921

Genre


Peter Taylor Forsyth, Scottish theologian.

From The Soul of Prayer book description:
P. T. Forsyth is sometimes described as an English pre-cursor to Karl Barth. He was born in 1848 to a Scottish family of humble origins and later in life attended Aberdeen University, where he graduated with first-class honours in classical literature in 1869. In 1876 he was ordained and called to minister in Shipley, Yorkshire. In his early ministry in the Congregational Church, Forsyth fought orthodoxy and sought for the right to rethink Christian theology and pursue liberal thought. In 1878, however, Forsyth experienced a conversion from, in his own words, "being a Christian to being a believer, from a lover of love to an object of grace." A profound awar
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“Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is about us.”
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“The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.”
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“Prayer is not mere wishing. It is asking – with a will. . . . It is energy. We turn to an active Giver; therefore we go into action.”
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