Intimately Forsaken

Thomas Brand (Ph.D Durham) is the Ministry Director of the Evangelical Fellowship of Congregational Churches, a group of around a hundred churches in the U.K. He currently serves as the chairman of the Affinity Council and board of directors. Affinity is one of the largest networks of evangelical churches in the U.K. He lives in England with his wife and three daughters.

“This lucid and engaging work, an expanded version of the author’s doctoral thesis under Lewis Ayres, seeks to clarify the meaning of Christ’s cry of dereliction from the cross … . this is a small gripe, in what is an uncommonly rich and sure-footed study.” (Mark Smith, The Global Anglican, Vol. 139 (1), March, 2025)

• Introduction: Cathedral Architecture and the Trinity.- FIRST PILLAR: The Meaning of ‘Forsaken’ in Mark 15:34.-SECOND PILLAR: The Communication of Idioms and the Cry.- THIRD PILLAR: Divine Impassibility and the Suffering of Christ.- FOURTH PILLAR: Trinitarian Distinctions.- TOWER AND FOUNDATIONS: The Impassible Sufferer, Intimately Forsaken.- Conclusions: The Trinitarian Foundations of Scripture and Theology.- Concluding Remarks.- Bibliography.