First Things RSS Feed - Todd Speidell https://www.firstthings.com/author/todd-speidell en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:53:28 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/todd-speidell 60 What Scientists Get, and Theologians Don’t, About Thomas F. Torrance https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/06/what-scientists-get-and-theologians-dont-about-thomas-f-torrance https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/06/what-scientists-get-and-theologians-dont-about-thomas-f-torrance Wed, 26 Jun 2013 00:01:00 -0400 2013 marks the centenary of the birth of one of the greatest theologians of the twentieth century, Thomas F. Torrance, an orthodox, ecumenical, and pastoral theologian. Although he held many academic and ecclesial credentials—including a doctor of theology degree under Karl Barth, several honorary doctorates, co-editor with Geoffrey Bromiley of Barth’s Church Dogmatics, author of dozens of books, Chair of Ecclesiastical History and then of Christian Dogmatics in New College at the University of Edinburgh, co-founder of the Scottish Journal of Theology, and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland—he considered his primary calling to be a minister of the Gospel and an evangelist to theologians. Modern western theology, he believed, has been trapped in an obsolete, dualist mindset that detaches Jesus Christ from God, worship and mission from Christ, and biblical and theological study from fellowship and communion with the living God.

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