biography
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Torrance, Thomas (Forsyth)
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| lived:
| (1913– )
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| biography:
| British theologian, born of missionary parents in Chengtu, China. He was professor of dogmatics at New College, Edinburgh (1952–79), and moderator of the Church of Scotland General Assembly (1976–7). He holds that theology should abandon its preconceptions and respond to the reality it encounters, both in relation to science and in the quest for an acceptable ecumenical theology. His views have been expounded in many books, including Theological Science (1969), Theology in Reconciliation (1975), The Trinitarian Faith (1988), and The Christian Doctrine of God, One Being, Three Persons (1996). In 1978 he received the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. |
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