Theology in Reconstruction - Softcover

Torrance, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802816320 ISBN 13: 9780802816320

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1979

Synopsis

Fifteen essays analyzing the basic intellectual challenges to the contemporary Christian church. The principal group of essays, "Through Jesus Christ," deals with the centrality of Christology and scientific dogmatics and with the Reformed and Roman Catholic doctrines of grace. Among the other topics treated by Professor Torrance are 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. --- from book's back cover

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas F. Torrance (1913 2007) occupied the chair of Christian dogmatics at the University of Edinburgh for twenty-seven years. He was the recipient of the Templeton Foundation Prize for Progress in 1978, and he served as moderator of the Church of Scotland and coeditor of the Scottish Journal of Theology. He wrote extensively, contributing more than twenty major works of theology and hundreds of articles in a variety of languages.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0802816320
• ISBN 13: 9780802816320
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288