Born 30 August 1912
Studied at Edinburgh (1931-37), Basel (1937-38), Oxford (1939-1940)
Professor of Church History, University of Edinburgh (1950-52)
Professor of Christian Dogmatics, University of Edinburgh (1952-79)
President of the Society for the Study of Theology (1967-68)
Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion (1978)
Warfield Lectures (1981), Didsbury Lectures (1982)
Died 2 December 2007
Major Works
Karl Barth: an Introduction to his Early Theology, 1910-1931 (Harper, 1962)
Theology in Reconstruction (SCM, 1965)
Space, Time and Incarnation (Oxford University Press, 1969)
Theological Science (Oxford University Press, 1969)
God and Rationality (Oxford University Press, 1971)
Theology and Reconciliation: Essays Towards Evangelical and Catholic Unity in East and West (Geoffrey Chapman, 1975)
Space, Time and Resurrection (Handsel Press, 1976)
Divine and Contingent Order (Oxford University Press, 1981)
(ed.) The Incarnation: Ecumenical Studies in the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed A.D. 381 (Handsel Press, 1981)
The Mediation of Christ (Paternoster, 1983)
The Trinitarian Faith: The Evangelical Theology of the Ancient Catholic Church (T & T Clark, 1988)
Karl Barth: Biblical and Evangelical Theologian (T & T Clark, 1990)
Trinitarian Perspectives: Towards Doctrinal Agreement (T & T Clark, 1992)
Royal Priesthood: A Theology of Ordained Ministry (T & T Clark, 1993)
The Christian Doctrine of God, One Being Three Persons (T & T Clark, 1996)
Secondary Works
The Nature of Doctrine in T. F. Torrance's Theology by Elmer Colyer (2001)
The Promise of Trinitarian Theology: Theologians in Dialogue with T.F. Torrance edited by Elmer Colyer (2001)
How to Read T.F. Torrance: Understanding His Trinitarian & Scientific Theology by Elmer Colyer (2001)
T. F. Torrance: An Intellectual Biography by Alister McGrath(1999, T & T Clark)
Divine Freedom and the Doctrine of the Immament Trinity by Paul D. Molnar (2002, T & T Clark)
T. F. Torrance: Theologian of the Trinity by Paul D. Molnar (forthcoming 2008, Ashgate)
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