Hugh Ross Mackintosh (31 October 1870 – 8 June 1936) was a Scottish

theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

, and parish minister who served as

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in 1932.

Life

He was born in Paisley on 31 October 1870, where his father held the

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charge. He attended the

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, and then New College, Edinburgh to study divinity. He also took sessions at Freiburg,

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and

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, where he became a particular friend of

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. His major theological work was his major study addressing the Person of Christ. He arrived at a kenotic doctrine of incarnation following his fellow Scot

P. T. Forsyth Peter Taylor Forsyth, also known as P. T. Forsyth, (1848–1921) was a Scottish theologian. Biography The son of a postman, Forsyth studied at the University of Aberdeen and then in University of Göttingen, Göttingen (under Albrecht Ritsc ...

. His other influential work was the 'Christian Experience of Forgiveness' which attempted to creatively restate the

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doctrines of justification and atonement. He argued that justification was forgiveness and that the cross was the cost of forgiveness to God. He also taught

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dogmatics – (systematic theology). He was a

minister at

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(1897–1901) and, following the creation of the

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in 1900, of BeechgroveChurch in

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( U.F. Church) (1901–1904), before becoming professor of divinity at New College (1904–1936). In 1910 he was living at 81 Colinton Road in south-west Edinburgh.Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1910/11 The

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and the United Free Church of Scotland united in 1929. Mackintosh was elected

in 1932. He died on 8 June 1936 and is buried with his wife, Jessie Air (1877–1951), in

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, towards the south-east.

Publications

*''The Doctrine of the Person of Christ'' *''The Originality of the Christian Message'' *''Immortality and the Future of the Christian Doctrine of Eternal Life'' *''Selections from the Literature of Theism'' *''Types of Modern Theology''

References

* Nigel M. de S. et al., ''Dictionary of Scottish Church History and Theology'', pp. 693–698. T & T Clark, Edinburgh 1993.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mackintosh, Hugh 1870 births Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Scottish Calvinist and Reformed theologians Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1936 deaths 20th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians 19th-century Ministers of the Free Church of Scotland Ministers of the United Free Church of Scotland 20th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland

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