Theology in Reconstruction
Overview
This collection of fifteen essays addresses the basic intellectual challenges to the contemporary Christian church. Professor Torrance deals with such topics as the centrality of Christology in scientific dogmatics, the Reformed and Roman Catholic doctrines of grace, theological education, the relation of theological statements to scientific methodology, the contemporary significance of some past theological giants, and the nature and significance of the Holy Spirit and of the church.
Top Highlights
“where we learn and know through listening and responding, by serving and obeying” (Page 14)
“Albert Einstein who used to speak of the awe and humility that one must have before the secrets of the universe and its amazing rationality—something that could be learned only by giving ear to it.” (Page 14)
“To be justified is to be lifted up above and beyond ourselves to live out of the risen and ascended Christ, and not out of ourselves.” (Page 152)
“the shape and pattern of things. Thinking for them was ultimately a kind of seeing” (Page 14)
- Title: Theology in Reconstruction
- Author: Thomas F. Torrance
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 1996
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Theology, doctrinal
- ISBNs: 9781579100247, 1579100244
- Resource ID: LLS:LGYRCNSTRCTN
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:14:48Z
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).