Juridical Law and Physical Law: Toward a Realist Foundation for Human Law
Overview
This book challenges jurists and parliamentarians to reconsider the foundations of the legal and political institutions in Britain, which are shown to be seriously wanting. The author believes that judicial decisions in favor of justice are set aside by appeal to statutory enactments of Parliament slanted by party-political prejudice.
- Title: Juridical Law and Physical Law: Toward a Realist Foundation for Human Law
- Author: Thomas F. Torrance
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 1997
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Jurisprudence; Legal positivism; Constitutional law › Great Britain
- ISBNs: 9781579100933, 1579100937
- Resource ID: LLS:JRDCLLWPHYSCLLW
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:55:25Z
Thomas F. Torrance (August 30,1913–December 2, 2007) was a Protestant Christian theologian and professor of Christian dogmatics for 27 years at the University of Edinburgh. Torrance was influential in the dialogue between science and theology.
He began studying in Edinburgh in 1931, focusing on classics and philosophy. At that time his own realist views of philosophy, theology, and morality started to develop, and they continued to do so as he moved to the study of theology at the Faculty of Divinity in 1934. From 1939 to 1940 Torrance studied at Oriel College, Oxford. He was ordained as minister on March 20, 1940.
He has authored several works, including Divine and Contingent Order, Ground and Grammar of Theology, and The Christian Doctrine of God, One Being Three Persons. Besides writing many books and articles, Torrance also translated several hundred theological writings into English from other languages, including the thirteen-volume, six-million-word Church Dogmatics of the Swiss theologian Karl Barth (co-edited with G.W. Bromiley).