The Justification of God: Lectures for War-Time on a Christian Theodicy

The Justification of God: Lectures for War-Time on a Christian Theodicy appeared during the height of World War I, when many Christians were having trouble reconciling their faith in God with the horrors of war. It is during such troubling times that the church is in need of competent leaders—those trained to minister during crises with a historical, universal, ethical, theological, and eternal understanding of the church. But The Justification of God is also a reassuring work, for in it Forsyth reiterates the eternal truths that Christ’s death on the cross has provided for us during hard times—even in times of war. “To justify God is the best and deepest way to fortify men. It provides the moral resource and stay which is the one thing at last. With open face to see the glory of God in things as they are, to blink nothing of the terror and yet to be sure of the Kingdom of God with all our heart—that is more for the courage of man than any nationalism or any patriotism when heart fails and grief benumbs.”