Bitter Tonic for our Time – Why the Church Needs the World: Peter Taylor Forsyth on Henrik Ibsen
Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: : Why does the Church need the world? This paper seeks to explore what today's Church might learn from secular 'apostles' and 'prophets' as part of its ongoing mission to, for and with the world that God so loves. In particular, it will investigate the role that poets, dramatists and other artists might play in identifying humanism's problem of downplaying moral realism – a problem that Church has often failed to critically grasp. The excursion will proceed via the engagement of the Scottish Congregationalist theologian Peter Taylor Forsyth (1848–1921) with one of his contemporaries, the Norwegian poet and dramatist, Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906). Forsyth provides us with a model of how we might engage our world with candor, humility and gospel courage.
DOI: 10.17613/8c5cw-chz32
Author: Goroncy, Jason
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2625735220