For and From the Discerning Reader...

Are you a discerning reader? Of course, you are! You read us! Well, expand your noggin's knowledge by checking out this new review by The Discerning Reader of Hugh Ross Mackintosh's The Person of Jesus Christ, which we put out back in The Year 2000. Also of interest is that this volume is edited by the recently deceased T. F. Torrance. It's always nice when we come upon reader reviews. There is a very active online readership of theology and biblical studies and it's important to let them all know that their thoughts and reflections are very much appreciated.

The Discerning Reader opines...

An eminent scholar in his own right, in our time Mackintosh has been obscured by his considerably more famous pupil, Thomas F. Torrance. Fittingly, Torrance has written an introduction as a postscript appreciation for T&T Clark’s reissue of this worthy little work. In the introduction, Torrance iterates the value of Mackintosh’s book, explains how it came to be published, and briefly outlines the control center of Mackintosh’s theology, the atonement. Mackintosh himself called the atonement “the subduing magnitude of the Divine sacrifice.” It should be noted that ‘subduing’ is a word frequently deployed in this short book; one gets the distinct sense that Mackintosh was often rightly overcome by the enormity of his subject matter.

The main body of the work sets out “to contemplate the Lord Jesus Christ reverently in…his attitude to men in Palestine…as he still speaks and lives within human souls…[and] to indicate his connexion with the inner life of God.” No problems are more sublime, Mackintosh says, and no problems are so intensely practical. Here is a professor who sought not to live in the ivory tower, but to commune with Christ and his fellowmen in the highways and byways of life.

Thanks for such a nice review, DR! Read the entire review at DR's website, linked above. I've put a link to the left, if you're interested in purchasing it from amazon.com.

Comments

[Mark@DR]

Thanks for your thanks, T&T. The book was a pleasure to read and review - as you could tell from my review - and I've been roaming the Continuum catalog ever since, watching for future re-releases of more Hugh Mackintosh works.

Mark@DR