The Trinitarian Faith: The Evangelical Theology of the Ancient Catholic Church (Second Edition)
Overview
Cutting across the divide between East and West and between Catholic and Evangelical, Thomas F. Torrance illuminates our understanding of the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. Torrance combines here the Gospel and a theology shaped by Karl Barth and the Church Fathers, and offers his readers a unique synthesis of the Nicene Creed. This volume remains a tremendously helpful resource on the doctrine of the Trinity and the Nicene Creed. The new introduction for this Cornerstones edition is written by Myk Habets, the leading Thomas F. Torrance scholar today.
Top Highlights
“We do not seek to understand what we believe, Augustine used to say, but we believe that we may understand.30” (Page 20)
“into the objective fact of the incarnate self-revelation of God” (Page 30)
“It was the whole man that the Son of God came to redeem by becoming man himself and effecting our salvation in and through the very humanity he appropriated from us—if the humanity of Christ were in any way deficient, all that he is said to have done in offering himself in sacrifice ‘for our sakes’, ‘on our behalf’ and ‘in our place’ would be quite meaningless.” (Page 152)
“for it is only through reconciliation to God by the blood of Christ that we may draw near to him and have access to him” (Page x)
“It is in our actual apprehending of God, however, that we realise that we cannot comprehend him” (Page 53)
- Title: The Trinitarian Faith: The Evangelical Theology of the Ancient Catholic Church (Second Edition)
- Author: Thomas F. Torrance
- Edition: Second Edition
- Series: The Cornerstones Series
- Publisher: Bloomsbury
- Print Publication Date: 2016
- Logos Release Date: 2019
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Nicene Creed; Trinity › History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600; Incarnation › History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600
- ISBNs: 9780567665584, 9780567665591, 9780567665607, 0567665585, 0567665593, 0567665607
- Resource ID: LLS:TRINITARIANFAITH2ED
- Resource Type: Systematic Theology
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:29:22Z
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).
