When Christ Comes and Comes Again
Overview
It is one of the principle tasks of the theologian in each generation to bring the preaching of the church to the bar of the word of God and to test its adequacy as a faithful presentation of the message and teaching of the New Testament. Torrance intended this volume to help evangelists to rethink the content of their proclamation in order to let the Word of God have free course in their ministry.
Top Highlights
“This same Jesus will come again! Who is this Jesus? He is the Jesus of Bethlehem, the Jesus of Calvary, the Jesus of the Resurrection. It is identically the same Jesus as the historical Jesus who will come again. Let us think about the significance of that.” (Page 17)
“so to give the people anthropology instead of Christology” (Page 8)
“from the earliest times this verse has been taken to be the shortest definition of the Church” (Page 102)
“He was clothed with our shame, that we might be clothed with His glory” (Page 184)
- Title: When Christ Comes and Comes Again
- 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
- Subjects: Church of Scotland › Sermons; Sermons, English › Scotland
- ISBNs: 9781579100094, 1579100090
- Resource ID: LLS:WHNCHRSTCMCMSGN
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:45:50Z
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).