ABSTRACT
If ever a theologian deserved to be treated under a paradoxical title, that theologian is P. T. Forsyth. His pages are peppered with paradoxes, enlivened by epigrams and they abound in antitheses. First, it has been said that Forsyth's writings are scholarly. Forsyth's point is that the 'ethical, cosmic, eternal estimate of Christ cannot be based on his biography alone, or chiefly, but upon his cross, as we shall again find when we have surmounted the present fertile obsession by 'the historical Jesus". As with the Bible, so with his observations upon thought through the Christian ages: Forsyth does not trouble with apparatus; indeed, he does not supply the grounds of his assertions as often as we should like. However, to say that Forsyth is unsystematic in all the ways described is, in the end, to say one of the less important things about him, and to express a judgement which would probably not have disturbed him in the slightest.
