Adam Nigh (University of Aberdeen), Bible and Theology
Faculty, Valley Christian High School (San Jose, CA), wrote The
Depth Dimension: Scripture and Hermeneutics in the Theology of T.
F. Torrance as his doctoral dissertation.
Todd H. Speidell (Fuller Theological Seminary), Instructor
of Theology at Montreat College (Montreat, NC), is the Editor of
Participatio: The Journal of the Thomas F. Torrance Theological
Fellowship and author of Fully Human in Christ: The Incarnation as
the End of Ethics (Wipf & Stock, 2016).
"An invaluable resource for any serious student of Torrance,
bringing together a rich and rewarding collection of his essays.
Highly recommended."
--Alister McGrath, University of Oxford
"It is not too much to say that without a proper hermeneutics
shaped by the unique nature of its object, theology would be lost.
This impressive collection of essays from Thomas F. Torrance
helpfully gathers together many of his most important writings on
the subject displaying an amazing grasp of history and theology.
Familiar themes emerge: the important connection between the
incarnation and atonement, the nature of scientific knowledge of
God as knowledge grounded in God and personally conveyed through
his Word and Spirit by grace through faith, and more. But the
really important impression that this book will convey to its
readers is the way Torrance's own thinking is not only shaped by
Scripture but by the early church Fathers, and especially by Calvin
and Barth. There are contextual discussions of just how Calvin
related experience and knowledge of God that will illuminate
Torrance's own important discussions of the Trinity and
Christology. This is a book that Torrance scholars and theologians
interested in Reformation history, as it relates to Augustine and
Mediaeval theology generally, will want to read."
--Paul Molnar, St. John's University, Queens, New York
"T. F. Torrance's extensive studies on the history of hermeneutics
deserve to remain important reading for students of theology and
scriptural interpretation. This volume presents a very valuable
collection of some of Torrance's most significant texts in the
field, set out somewhat after the fashion of the ambitious general
history of hermeneutics which he originally envisioned as corollary
to his work on theological epistemology and Christian doctrine. For
all who wish to gain an understanding of Torrance's provocative
ways of reading historical theology and its legacies, this book is
an essential asset."
--Ivor J. Davidson, University of Aberdeen
"One might think a work on hermeneutics would be mired in stodgy
prose and consumed with literary and secular hermeneutical theory.
This volume exhibits neither tendency. Hermeneutics for Torrance is
Christology in another key, and that means his hermeneutics is
distinctly Christian. As we have come to expect from Torrance, the
tradition is examined (here especially significant late medieval
thinkers, Reformers, and of course Karl Barth) not merely for its
own sake but for the cause of following the mind of the catholic
Church in order to make clear what it means for Christ to be the
Truth and the one who fully reveals God. Gathered together in one
accessible volume, the editors have done a service to the church
with these carefully chosen essays which form a companion volume of
sorts to Torrance's earlier study in hermeneutics, Divine Meaning,
which explored the patristic consensus."
--Myk Habets, Carey Baptist College
"T. F. Torrance's writings on the history of biblical hermeneutics
deserve to be much more widely known than they presently are, for t
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