Abstract
This article proposes that scholarship needs to take into account the intensely missional and practical nature of T.F. Torrance’s life and work. Using primary sources, it isolates mission to the Qiang in China as the area in which personal mission practice and theology coincide. It shows that Torrance’s theology of divine-human communion is rooted in the missio Dei, expressed in the nature of the perichoretic interrelations of the ontological Trinity and the mission of the economic Trinity in the world through the covenant history of Israel. This concept is illustrated practically in the mission history of the Qiang. A holistic concept of mission and theology is therefore at the heart of both Torrance’s biography and theology.
Highlights
Research into the theology of Thomas Forsyth Torrance (1913–2007) has increased significantly in the years since his death
Much of the research has focused on his intellectual output and scientific theology
There is a theological necessity for a unitary understanding of the Christian gospel through the homoousion in all Torrance’s work, but it is conceivable that Torrance’s early exposure to the holism of the Chinese worldview opened him up to the possibility of different patterns of theological thought
Summary
Research into the theology of Thomas Forsyth Torrance (1913–2007) has increased significantly in the years since his death.
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