The Promise of Trinitarian Theology: Theologians in Dialogue with T. F. Torrance

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.

Colyer, Elmer M.

History

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

How to Read T.F. Torrance: Understanding His Trinitarian & Scientific Theology

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Intervarsity Pr

Thomas F. Torrance is regarded as one of the foremost Reformed theologians of the second half of the twentieth century. He taught for thirty years at New College, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, until his retirement in 1979. He has written extensively, contributing more than twenty major works of theology and hundreds of articles in a variety of languages. In this book Elmer Coyler provides access to Torrance's voluminous writings. Demonstrating the profoundly trinitarian and evangelical spirit of Torrance's theology, Coyler also captures his concern to formulate a renewed theological method in the tradition of Athanasius. Coyler helps us see how, in Torrance's view and practice, a truly scientific approach must be godly in order to be accurate and faithful.

How to Read T. F. Torrance: Understanding His Trinitarian and Scientific Theology

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Wipf & Stock Publishers

Thomas F. Torrance is considered by many to be the most important English-speaking theologian of the last fifty years. Torrance has written extensively (over six hundred items) on nearly every theme in theology, especially theological method and the nature of theology. Yet little secondary literature about his theology has been published to date. The significance of this book by Elmer M. Colyer is that it discusses a theme (the nature of doctrine) that takes readers into the heart of Torrance's critical realist epistemology, theological method and understanding of the nature and purpose of theology. Colyer also contributes significantly to the ongoing conversation concerning the nature of doctrine, since Torrance's understanding of doctrine moves considerably beyond the work of George Lindbeck (The Nature of Doctrine) and Alister McGrath (The Genesis of Doctrine) in this area.

The Nature of Doctrine in T. F. Torrance's Theology

Wipf and Stock

Wesley's understanding of the Trinity is essential for Methodists. Beginning with the Trinitarian debates that raged from the early seventeenth century through the eighteenth century, this book documents how important the participatory economic Trinitarian dimension is for understanding Wesley's theology. The author shows how Wesley's Trinitarian vision of Christianity is dramatically different from other Christian thinkers and how it affects Wesley's ecclesiology and soteriology.

The Trinitarian Dimension of John Wesley's Theology

New Room Books

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