The Promise of Trinitarian Theology

Theologians in Dialogue with T. F. Torrance

By (author) Elmer M. Colyer

Publication date:

19 December 2001

Length of book:

368 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9780742512931

Thomas F. Torrance is considered by many to be the most outstanding living Reformed theologian in the Anglo-Saxon world. In The Promise of Trinitarian Theology, Elmer M. Colyer presents a collection of essays critiquing Torrance's work. It explores his place in Reformed theology and his relation to the Greek fathers. Both everyday life and scientific understanding are discussed in the essays within. The Promise of Trinitarian Theology is a hopeful step engaging the works of T. F. Torrance and the theology behind his words.

Chapter 1 Thomas Forsyth Torrance: Minister of the Gospel, Pastor, Evangelical Theologian
Chapter 2 T. F. Torrance in Relation to Reformed Theology
Chapter 3 The Christology of Thomas F. Torrance
Chapter 4 The Holy Spirit in T. F. Torrance's Theology
Chapter 5 Being and Person: T. F. Torrance's Doctrine of God
Chapter 6 The Dimension of Depth: Thomas F. Torrance on the Sacraments
Chapter 7 Reading T. F. Torrance as a Practical Theologian
Chapter 8 Revelation, Scripture, Mystical Apprehension of Divine Knowledge
Chapter 9 A Scientific Theological Method
Chapter 10 Humanity in an Intelligble Cosmos: Non-Duality in Albert Einstein and Thomas Torrance
Chapter 11 Natural Science and Christian Faith in the Thought of T. F. Torrance
Chapter 12 Thomas Torrance Responds

It will be of interest to anyone seeking an introduction to Torrance's thought as a whole, or to any of its various facets.