The Cruciality of the Cross

The Cruciality of the Cross is a strong plea for the orthodox doctrine of atonement, expiation, and propitiation. Forsyth views forgiveness through the atonement as essential to evangelical Christianity in respect to the New Testament Gospel, the Christian experience, and modern thought. He devotes a chapter to each of these themes and closes with a chapter on the moral meaning of the blood of Christ. “An evangelical Church has stood, and stands, not only for the supreme value of Christ’s death, but for its prime value as atonement to a holy God, and as the only atonement whereby man is just with God.”