From Glory to Golgotha: Controversal Issues in the Life of Christ

by Donald MacLeod

Macleod has written solid treatments of The Person of Christ (IVP 1998) and Jesus is Lord (Mentor 1998) but in From Glory to Golgotha he distils much of the essence into 10 popular addresses on controversial issues in the life of Christ. The subjects include, Did Christ have a fallen human nature? Was Christ really tempted?, The crucified God and To Live is Christ. This is superb teaching, in marked contrast to the self-centred materials so often found. Buy it and read with joy of your Redeemer.

Genres: Christian, Theology

87 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Donald MacLeod is a Scottish theologian.

Macleod studied at the University of Glasgow and the Free Church College before being ordained as a minister of the Free Church of Scotland in 1964. He served as professor of systematic theology at the Free Church College from 1978 to 2011, and as principal from 1999 to 2010.

In 1996, Macleod was cleared of allegations that he had sexually assaulted four women. The Sheriff court found that "the women had all lied in the witness box to further the ends of Professor Macleod's enemies in the Free Church of Scotland." A number of people who believed Macleod should be put on trial by the General Assembly then formed the Free Church Defence Association and ultimately a new denomination, the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing). However, Johnston McKay notes that although on the surface the split was about Donald Macleod, he believes it was about theology since Macleod belonged to the more "modernizing" wing of the Free Church.

In 2011, a Festschrift was published in Macleod's honor. The People's Theologian: Writings in Honour of Donald Macleod (ISBN 1845505840) included contributions from Richard Gaffin, Derek Thomas, and Carl Trueman.

Reviews

[Adriana · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was an excellent book recommended by our minister on the topic of learning more about Jesus’ humanity. I learned so much and the concepts and ideas go through my mind daily as I read through the Gospels and think about Jesus. It’s a book I hope to read again a few times in my life, Lord willing.

[Alan B. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Most Excellent!

I had heard of Donald McLeod many years back, but I had never read any of his printed works. That all has changed. Anything written by Mr. McLeod is rich in Christ. He digs deep. This short book is no exception

[Brian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Magnificent

[Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

Macleod does a wonderful job explaining the work of Christ. Great book to learn the importance of Christ life and his mission to save sinners.

[Cath · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is billed as accessible to lay readers and commended as heart-warming and devotional. It could be said that the only devotional effect it has is to give a reader grief and amazement at the damage being done to the reputation of God the Saviour within the bounds of the church which is called by his great name; that the only warmth of feeling it engenders is outrage on that account; and that its errors are easily identifiable to anyone who has the briefest of nodding acquaintances with as ordinary a document as the Shorter
Catechism. Meanwhile, it cannot be doing any believers any good, to be reading this kind of equivocating, reckless, distressing writing, and it is a great pity that anyone within Christendom would have their minds and hearts troubled with trying to reconcile what they read there in good faith with what they (should) know better.
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[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

*The synopsis above is clearly for another book!?*

I love this book because I felt I knew the Lord better from reading it. MacLeod writes with intelligence and objectivity, but also with obvious reverence and devotion. Chapters include "Did Christ have a fallen human nature?", "Was Christ really tempted?", "Why did God sacrifice his own son?" and "Did Paul call Jesus God?". Reading MacLeod you feel you are in the company of someone who knows what he is talking about and whose examination of the issues is wholly trustworthy.

[Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this in a few sittings; it is almost a summary of his earlier book on The Person of Christ and his later work Christ Crucified. The refutation of modalism is priceless, though he does engage in some unhelpful speculation with respect to divine impassibility (while still rejecting patripassianism).

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

An excellent little book on Christology. Thank you, Carl Trueman, for recommending it.