knowledge of God is essentially a rational event

Theological science

Torrance, Thomas F.

OXFORD U. PRESS AND BRANNER OG KOCH

In this book, Professor Torrance calls for 'a return to theological rationality': theological thinking must not be a construction of man's making but controlled and conditioned by the nature of its Object, God, the supreme reality. From this approach the author analyses the 'Eclipse of God' and relates his position to the costly grace of God in Christ.

God and Rationality (Oxford Scholarly Classics Series)

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Words, Language & Grammar

Oxford University Press

Oxford Scholarly Classics brings together a number of great academic works from the archives of Oxford University Press. Reissued in a uniform series design, they will enable libraries, scholars, and students to gain fresh access to some of the finest scholarship of the last century.

Divine and Contingent Order (Oxford Scholarly Classics Series)

Conflict and Agreement in the Church: Order and Disorder (1)

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

James Clarke

T.F. Torrance's Conflict and Agreement in the Church gathers together his most influential essays and articles on topics relating to ecumenism. Himself involved heavily in the ecumenical movement, he wrote that 'ours must be the task of learning together again how to confess, like the early Church, faith in Jesus Christ as Saviour and God in all its breadth and length and height and depth, and therefore in the overflowing love of God.' Out of this conviction grew a comprehensive doctrine of the Church 'in which our differences are lost sight of because they are destroyed from behind by a masterful faith in the Saviour of men.' In the first volume, Torrance presents a set of essays engaging theologically with different denominations, along with responses to particular problems facing the ecumenical project. In particular, writing after the third world conference on faith and order, he addresses the hopes and barriers it raised to closer ecumenical relations. Throughout, Torrance's acute awareness of contrasting theological principles establishes a firm basis for further progress, without obscuring the doctrinal and ecclesiological differences that remain. In the second volume, Torrance's thought on inter-denominational cooperation in light of the Church's mission is presented. He begins by suggesting that 'the lines of conflict and agreement in the Church coincide less and less with the frontiers of the historic communions'. This opens the door for greater union between those communion, but also exposes significant challenges to unity within them. Addressing the major debates on the sacraments of baptism and the Eucharist, along with the priesthood and biblical exegesis, Torrance proposes a constructive way forward sealed by 'reconciliation in the Body and Blood of Christ'.

Conflict and Agreement in the Church: The Ministry and the Sacraments of the Gospel (2)

To many Christians the Book of Revelations is virtually a closed book. Occasionally a Preacher may borrow a text from it on which to base an address, but systematic exposition of the Apocalypse is rare in the pulpit today. The reason is not far to seek. The average layman is undoubtedly both mystified and a trifle repelled by the incomprehensible imagery of the Book, while the minister is perhaps intimidated by the prospect of a venture upon so enigmatic a theme. Professor Torrance in this remarkable series of sermons not only opens up a much neglected book, but succeeds in giving it a startlingly contemporaneous significance: the cobwebs of prejudice are blown away and the ancient pages speak to the here and now with the surprising freshness of discovery. The author takes up to the roots and the ancient and enigmatic book speaks to us in no uncertain voice. This is expository preaching at its best.

Apocalypse Today

James Clarke Lutterworth

Space, Time and Incarnation

When the Nicene Creed affirms that the eternal Son of God 'for us and for our salvation came down from heaven', it asserts that God Himself is actively present within the space and time of our world. The philosophical problems that this involves are bound up with Christian theology, and form the subject of this book. Professor Torrance begins with a critique of modern Protestant thinking, and proceeds to examine the place of spatial and temporal elements in basic theological concepts. He then offers a positive account of the relation of the incarnation to space and time. While related to the work of the great theologians of the past, this study is also supremely relevant to theological thinking in this age of science.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

T&T Clark

This book examines the implications of the Judaeo-Christian claim for our understanding of the universe that it is contingent: freely created by God out of nothing, and having an existence, freedom, and rtional order of its own while still dependent on him.Professor Torrance argues that this claim made possible the development of western empirical science, but that Newtonian physics obscured the connection between the rational order of nature and the Christian doctrine of creation. He shows how modern relativity and quantum theories have once againd rawn attention to the significance of contingence, and imply that the universe is found to be consistently rational only if it is dependent on a creative rationality beyond it.He considers finally the disorderly elements in the universe, both physical and moral, and argues that the doctrine of incarnation as well as of creation is necessary to deal with the intellectual problems which they raise.

Divine and Contingent Order

A classic study of the development and influence of Barth's theology, and an exploration of the period in which the Barthian revolution was shoped.

Karl Barth: Introduction to Early Theology (Academic Paperback)

The classic study, which establishes a sound theological base for the future of philosophical science.

Theological Science

Bloomsbury T&T Clark

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