Handsel Press titles available for sale
Posted: November 6th, 2011 | Author: tspeidellHANDSEL PRESS STOCK, now available through www.Amazon.co.uk
Author TITLE Binding Date Orig. PRICE New PRICE
Barbour, Robin J S Stewart in a Nutshell booklet 2000 £ 2.50 £ 1.95
Bell, Charles Calvin and Scottish Theology case 1986 10.50 6.95
Campbell, J McLeod The Nature of the Atonement paper 1996 15.95 9.95
Davidson, Robert Vitality of Worship (on the Psalms) paper 1998 19.95 9.95
Dawson, Gerrit Love Bade me Welcome
(George Herbert’s poetry) case 1998 9.95 4.95
Fergusson, David John Macmurray in a Nutshell booklet 1992 2.50 1.95
Houston, Joseph Thomas Reid in a Nutshell booklet 2000 2.50 1.95
Houston, Joseph Belief in God booklet 2009 2.50 1.95
Kernohan, R D The Realm of Reform paper 1999 9.95 4.95
Kernohan, R D John Buchan in a Nutshell booklet 2000 2.50 1.95
Knight, G A F Christ the Center (OT & Incarnation) paper 1999 4.95 3.95
Marley, A G T F Torrance in a Nutshell booklet 1992 2.50 1.95
Martin, J H William Barclay in a Nutshell booklet 1992 2.50 1.95
MacFhionnlaigh, F. Rainbow in the Night (diglot, Gaelic
& English, epic testimony and dialogue
between calvinism & the Wizard of Oz) case 1997 9.95 6.95
McIntosh, Hamish Robert Laws, Servant of Africa case 1993 14.95 9.95
McIntyre, John Faith, Theology and Imagination case 1987 9.50 5.95
Shannon, Bill Tom Allan in a Nutshell booklet 2000 2.50 1.95
Stein, J + Taylor, H In Christ all Things Hold Together paper 2010 (rep.) 5.00 3.95
Storrar, W F Scottish Identity (ground–breaking
book on Christianity and nationalism) case 1990 11.50 6.95
Taylor H G The Logic of Belief paper 2009 7.00 4.95
Torrance, J B +
Walls, R C John Duns Scotus in a Nutshell booklet 1992 2.50 1.95
Torrance, T F Being & Nature of the Unborn Child booklet 2000 2.50 1.95
Torrance, T F The Christian Frame of Mind paper 1985 3.50 2.95
Torrance, T F The Ministry of Women booklet 1992 2.50 1.95
Torrance, T F (ed.) Belief in Science and in Christian
Life (The thought of Michael Polanyi) case 1980 5.25 3.95
Wilkinson, John The Medical History of the
Reformers (Calvin, Luther, Knox) paper 2001 9.95 4.95
Wilkinson, John The Bible and Healing paper 2000 9.95 6.95
These titles can be purchased through the Amazon UK website, and are supplied by Sanctus Media in Bo’ness. The Handsel Press was co-founded in 1975 by T F Torrance and Jock Stein, to publish books “from the centre of Christian faith, and on the frontier between Christianity and other disciplines.” Questions: contact Jock Stein 01620 824896, jstein@handselpress.org.uk
TFT’s theology of culture
Posted: April 26th, 2011 | Author: tspeidellEric Flett has explored in a scientific, constructive, and evangelical way Torrance’s theology of culture in Wipf and Stock’s recent release of Flett’s Persons, Powers, and Pluralities: Toward a Trinitarian Theology of Culture. This book admirably mines a previously unexplored frontier of Torrance’s broad vision of theological–especially and particularly Trinitarian–engagement with culture. For students of a theology of culture in general or Torrance in particular, this work is a significant contribution to the growing body of literature dedicated to Torrance’s theological legacy.
Journal special issue on T F Torrance’s lectures
Posted: March 3rd, 2011 | Author: tspeidellThe journal Theology in Scotland has just published a special issue devoted to papers given at two recent day conferences marking the publication of a two-volume edition of Prof T. F. Torrance’s dogmatics lectures.
The issue’s contents are a mix of academic papers on aspects of Torrance’s work and personal reminiscences by several of his former students. Also featured is a fascinating exchange of letters between T. F. Torrance and the distinguished American philosopher Brand Blanshard on the reception of the theologies of Karl Barth and Emil Brunner.
The special issue is priced at USD20.00 (= GBP12.50) including p&p, and is available from the University of St Andrews online shop or by sending a check payable to ‘University of St Andrews’ to Production Manager, Theology in Scotland, St Mary’s College, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9JU, Scotland.
Full details of the contents are available on the Theology in Scotland webpages. http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/divinity/rt/tisjournal/archive/16-3/
Available from the University of St Andrews online shop https://onlineshop.st-andrews.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=200&modid=1&compid=1
Trinitarian Theology after Barth
Posted: December 21st, 2010 | Author: tspeidellT.F. Torrance board member Myk Habets has co-edited a significant and substantial collection of essays, Trinitarian Theology after Barth, published by Pickwick Publications (an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers). Karl Barth is a modern church father, and whether one appreciates or criticizes him, one must reckon with his monumental and voluminous theology. Myk Habets has helped Barth and Torrance students consider a variety of voices and interpretations in a balanced assessment of Trinitarian theology “after Barth.” Essayists include Paul Molnar (St. John’s, New York), Ivor Davidson (St. Andrews, Scotland), Bruce McCormack (Princeton Theological Seminary, NJ), and Myk Habets (Carey Baptist College and Graduate School, New Zealand). John Webster (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) wrote the Foreword to this fine volume. Myk Habets’ other publications include Theosis in the Theology of Thomas Torrance (Ashgate), as well as The Anointed Son and The Spirit of Truth, ed. (both by Pickwick).
Paul Molnar’s landmark book on TFT
Posted: November 3rd, 2010 | Author: tspeidellCritical acclaim for Paul Molnar’s Thomas F. Torrance: Theologian of the Trinity:
“Molnar convincingly demonstrates that what had moved Torrance as a Christian is still of supreme relevance and significance to constructive theological work in the Church today. For history of dogma, and especially for Torrance scholarship, this book is quite simply a wonderful gift and invaluable resource to church theology.” (Journal of Theological Studies)
ALFRED H. YUEN, King’s College, Aberdeen, Scotland
“Paul Molnar has produced a profound, detailed and comprehensive study, one that will surely become the definitive treatment of Torrance’s trinitarian theology.”
GEORGE HUNSINGER, Princeton Theological Seminary
“This is one of the most significant works, if not the most significant, on Torrance’s theology published to date.”
EL COLYER, University of Dubuque Theological Seminary
Chris Kettler’s new book
Posted: July 8th, 2010 | Author: tspeidell“Chris Kettler’s God Who Rejoices, joins his fine book, e God Who Believes, as two indispensible texts for connecting Christology to the Christian life. Kettler has learned the most important lessons from his teachers and now imparts them to his readers. ese books are soon to be in the category of Christian classics. I certainly hope that we will be treated to a few more by this seasoned theologian and master teacher, but for now we have a secondtext fit for use by theologians and pastors alike, either for the classroom or a bible study. Wherever despair reigns, this book offers a timely intervention.”—WILLIE JAMES JENNINGS, DUKE DIVINITY SCHOOL
“In this book Christian Kettler offers a profound diagnosis of the despair that resides just underneath the surface of so much of modern life. However, the value of this book rests less on its perceptive diagnosis than on the surprising gift of joy Kettler espies in the gospel of Jesus Christ, a gift that is rooted in the cross (Heb.12:2!) and encompasses suffering and loss as well as beauty and delight. Here one finds ample witness to what the modern world, and perhaps the church most of all, least expects: joy in the life of the triune God.”
—THOMAS W. CURRIE, UNION-PSCE AT CHARLOTTE
“Chris advances the trajectory set forth by T. F. Torrance and Ray Anderson, offering a poignant, comprehensive exposition of both despair and joy in order to show how only the vicarious humanity of Jesus Christ provides a genuine answer to despair and joy . . . His approach will puzzle some and disturb others, but should in all cases provoke clarifying self-examination of inherited assumptions that won’t bear the weight of experience. I’ve been waiting for this book and did not even know it. Now I cannot wait to recommend it to my friends!”
–DON PAYNE, DENVER SEMINARY
Check out journal board member Myk Habets’ books
Posted: July 7th, 2010 | Author: tspeidellMyk Habets wrote his dissertation “‘The Danger of Vertigo’: An Evaluation and Critique of Theosis in the Theology of Thomas Forsyth Torrance” in 2006. This was subsequently revised and published as Theosis in the Theology of Thomas F. Torrance with Ashgate in their “New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies Series”. I have known Myk through his work and I have had the privilege of interacting with him in person and I can honestly say that both in person and in his writing Myk offers careful, thought-provoking analysis of Torrance’s theology and of how that theology proffers both hope and challenge to a variety of theological perspectives today. Myk is an energetic and productive young scholar whose work demonstrates that he is widely read in all areas of Torrance’s theology; he ably weaves together a number of key issues across a broad-range of difficult and technical themes.
Paul D. Molnar, Professor of Systematic Theology, St. John’s University, Queens, New York
1. Theosis in the Theology of Thomas Forsyth Torrance. Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies. Surrey : Ashgate, 2009.
2. The Anointed Son: A Trinitarian Spirit Christology. Princeton Theological Monograph Series 129. Eugene, OR.: Pickwick Publications, 2010.
3. The Theology of Thomas Torrance: Essays on Method and Content. Projected for 2011 upon confirmation of a publisher.
Journal projections
Posted: June 28th, 2010 | Author: tspeidellTFT’s Use and Appropriation of Theological Sources, The Interrelationship of Incarnation and Atonement, TFT as Ecumenical and Pastoral Theologian, Theological Science, Undeveloped Themes in TFT’s Thought:Social, Ethical, and Behavioral Frontiers of Knowledge, Christ, Israel, and the Church, TFT and His Critics, plus supplemental volumes to include miscellaneous material
Please contact the Editor if you have suggestions or potential contributions: todd_speidell@tftorrance.org
Formal call for papers
Posted: April 28th, 2010 | Author: tspeidellWe are projecting topics for the next several years, and I would appreciate hearing from TFTTF members regarding their suggested themes and unsolicited papers. Papers are subject to a peer review process by Board members (currently, Matthew Baker, Elmer Colyer, Ivor Davidson, Gary Deddo, George Dragas, Eric Flett, David Fergusson, Michael Gibson, Trevor Hart, Myk Habets, Alasdair Heron, George Hunsinger, Christian Kettler, Paul Molnar, Thomas Noble, Andrew Purves, Joel Scandrett, Jock Stein, Alan Torrance, and Robert Walker).
Email suggested themes to todd_speidell@tftorrance.org.
