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All Blog Posts With Tag: T. F. Torrance
Karl Barth wrote two famous letters in August 1963 wherein he condemned Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ (1881 – 1955) as a "giant gnostic snake" that has swallowed up Jesus Christ in order to worship the "deity of evolution", and that Emil Brunner is a "harmless blind-worm" in comparison to […]
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T. F. Torrance is a scientific theologian. In a way, all theology is science, as Karl Barth said at the very beginning of the Church Dogmatics I/1: "As a theological discipline dogmatics is the scientific self-examination of the Christian Church with respect to the content of its distinctive talk about […]
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T. F. Torrance was an evangelical Reformed theologian and was an influential leader in the Church of Scotland. In The Mediation of Christ, Tom Torrance retells an insightful answer to the question asked by a highlander, "When were you born again?" Torrance did answer with his own personal conversion experience, but […]
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T. F. Torrance joins the chorus of pinnacle Reformed theologians who decry all conditional gospels as a false gospel. In evangelicalism today, the gospel is frequently preached in a conditional format, such that salvation will be received if and only if a personal decision is made to accept Jesus as savior. Reformed […]
Jesus Christ is the revelation of the Word of God in human form, and the entire Bible (in the words of Karl Barth) is a human witness to Jesus Christ who is the very Word of God. Many Christians wrongly identify the Bible as the Word of God, but the […]
Is God really like Jesus? Yes! answered T. F. Torrance (February 8, 2019)
What is God like? The answer is Jesus! In The Mediation of Christ, T. F. Torrance says Yes! God is like Jesus. Perhaps some people may moan at this answer but there is a good Barthian reason why "Jesus" is the answer. It is the same reason that the answer to […]
GIVEAWAY: T. F. Torrance in Plain English by Stephen D. Morrison (January 28, 2019)
Update 2019-01-31: This book giveaway has now ended. Congratulations to winners Sue McIntyre, Dan Emerick, and Potter McKinney!
The PostBarthian T. F. Torrance Book Giveaway has now started! We are giving away two paperback copies and one digital copy of Stephen D. Morrison's T. F. Torrance In Plain English this week! There […]
REVIEW: T. F. Torrance in Plain English by Stephen D. Morrison (January 24, 2019)
I previously reviewed two of Stephen D. Morrison's books—Karl Barth In Plain English (2017) and Jürgen Moltmann In Plain English (2018)—so I was excited to review T. F. Torrance In Plain English (2017) too. I've enjoyed T. F. Torrance In Plain English the most of Morrison's "In Plain English" series. Perhaps it is because I've read most […]
T. F. Torrance on Jesus’ Verdict Against Natural Theology (February 27, 2018)
Thomas F. Torrance makes a clever argument against natural theology in his book Incarnation: The Person and Life of Christ. It's a well known fact that Karl Barth was firmly against natural revelation (although he left the door open to natural theology late in life). So it is no surprise that […]
The Errors of Inerrancy: #6 Inerrancy obscures Jesus with the Bible (January 3, 2017)
[The Errors of Inerrancy: A ten-part series on why Biblical Inerrancy censors the Scriptures and divides Evangelicals.]
6. Inerrancy obscures Jesus with the Bible
John Calvin said that the Bible is similar to eyeglasses that allow us to see Jesus. If the Bible may be compared to eyeglasses, then Biblical Inerrancy may be […]
