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2025-11-21 TFT TF Annual Meeting Fri Nov 21, 2025: Tom Greggs, "Thomas F. Torrance and the Holy Spirit" The Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship will hold its annual meeting in Boston on Friday, November 21, 2025 in conjunction with the AAR annual meeting. The Annual Meetings of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and…
2025-11-12 Torrance Retreat Fall 2025 Torrance Retreat at Loch Tay, 12-14 November 2025 (Hybrid; Zoom link tba) As usual, the aim of the Retreat in its spectacular setting at Loch Tay is to make in-depth understanding of the bible with good theology available to all in accessible language without loss of depth or content. Following up…
2025-03-08 News New Participatio: "The Practical Theology of Thomas F. Torrance." Table of contents and download links
2024-11-22 TFT TF Annual Meeting Annual meeting Friday, November 22, 2024, in San Diego. The Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship will hold its annual meeting on Friday, November 22, 2024 in conjunction with the AAR annual meeting. Watch video: https://vimeo.com/1052501523 The Annual Meetings of the American Academy of…
2024-11-06 Torrance Retreat Fall 2024 Torrance Retreat at Loch Tay, 6-8 November 2024 Theme: Christ and Christian Education: Christian faith in a deeply secular society. As usual, the aim of the Retreat in its spectacular setting is to make in-depth understanding of the bible with good theology available to all in accessible language…
2024-06-22 Happy 100th birthday, David W. Torrance! We are delighted to offer congratulations to the Rev. David W. Torrance on his 100th birthday. Photo: David W. Torrance, in Chengdu, 2012. Image courtesy Torrance family. David Torrance was born in Chengdu in the Sichuan province of western China on 22nd June, 1924, as the youngest of the six… June 22, 2024
2024-03-15 Ritchie on Maxwell, book launch Book launch in Inverness for Bruce Ritchie, James Clerk Maxwell: Faith, Church, Physics. The Inverness launch will be live-streamed on Friday (15th March), from 7.30 pm GMT (cf. WorldClock). Find it on the Facebook page of 'Inshes East Church of Scotland.'
2024-02-29 News New Participatio: "The Priority of Grace." Table of contents and download links
2023-11-10 Torrance Retreat Fall 2023 Torrance Retreat at Loch Tay Firbush Retreat, 8-10 November 2023. In-person, Loch Tay, Scotland. Theme: Growing up into Christ: Paul’s preaching and vision for the church in Ephesus. Hard wired into its focus on Christ, the topic makes clear the mutual inseparability of theology and Christian…
2023-05-06 News New Participatio issue on the Holy Spirit: Table of contents and download links

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Founded in 2001 as a research organization devoted to critical and constructive engagement with the Trinitarian theology of Thomas F. Torrance, the T. F. Torrance Theological Fellowship became an auxiliary organization of the American Academy of Religion in 2003. The website has grown into a hub for a geographically-dispersed multidisciplinary community. It features the peer-reviewed open-access journal Participatio (founded 2009), annual keynotes (since 2005), research bibliographies (> 1600 primary sources), workshops, videos, student profiles and dissertation notices, a member directory, and other resources to stimulate and sustain a Torrance-related Trinitarian vision.

Note: Just as the work of Thomas F. Torrance was interdisciplinary, so this Fellowship is multi-disciplinary, pertaining to any discipline, including philosophy and the sciences. And as the work of Tom Torrance (TFT) was intertwined with that of his brothers James (JBT) and David (DWT), so the resources on this website pertain to the innumerable students and scholars who continue to creatively, critically, and constructively engage the work of all three brothers.

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Deb Colyer With great sadness we announce that Deb Colyer, wife of El Colyer, passed away November 11, 2023
David J. Torrance With great sadness we announce that David J. Torrance passed away October 16, 2023. Rev.

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Thomas F. Torrance, "Ethics and Embryos," taped lecture, Rutherford House, Edinburgh	Ethics and Embryos
Thomas F. Torrance, "War Service – Middle East & Italy: 1943-45," Unpublished typescript (No date), 64 pp., #U-TFT-3	War Service – Middle East & Italy: 1943-45
Michael D. Morrison, ed., Trinitarian Conversations, Volume 2: Interviews With More Theologians (Charlotte, North Carolina: Grace Communion International, 2022)	Trinitarian Conversations, Volume 2
The Thomas F. Torrance History of Science Collection, History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries	The Thomas F. Torrance History of Science Collection
Kerry Magruder and Brent Purkaple, general editors, The Torrance Oral History Project (The Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship, 2019-ongoing)	The Torrance Oral History Project - Description
Thomas F. Torrance, Theology in Reconstruction (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 1996), #1996-616;; Bellingham, Washington: Faithlife Corporation, Logos Bible Software, 2018, #1996-616-Logos	Theology in Reconstruction
Thomas F. Torrance, Theology in Reconciliation: Essays towards Evangelical and Catholic Unity in East and West (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 1996); #1975-322; Bellingham, Washington: Faithlife Corporation, Logos Bible Software, 2018, #1975-322-Logos	Theology in Reconciliation
Thomas F. Torrance, Select Works of Thomas F. Torrance (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock; Bellingham, Washington: Faithlife Corporation, Logos Bible Software, 2018); #2018-TFT-1	Select Works of Thomas F. Torrance
Thomas F. Torrance, Juridical Law and Physical Law: Toward a Realist Foundation for Human Law (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 1997), #1997-TFT-3; Bellingham, Washington: Faithlife Corporation, Logos Bible Software, 2018, #1997-TFT-3-Logos	Juridical Law and Physical Law
Thomas F. Torrance, Gospel, Church, and Ministry, ed. Jock Stein (Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2012; Bellingham, Washington: Faithlife Corporation, Logos Bible Software, 2018); #2012-TFT-1-Logos	Gospel, Church, and Ministry

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Robert J. Wozniak, "Scientific Imagination as locus of Theology," Religions 16, no. 4 (2025): 467; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16040467	Scientific Imagination as locus of Theology
Christopher Woznicki, “The Vicarious Mission of Christ and the Church,” Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 22, 2024	Annual Meeting 2024
Myk Habets, "The Vagaries of Theology: Thomas F. Torrance and Practical Theology," Participatio 12: "The Practical Theology of Thomas F. Torrance" (2024): 175-213	The Vagaries of Theology
Emmanuel Gergis, "The Christology of Thomas F. Torrance and the Coptic Church: A Bridge to Ecumenism," Participatio 12: "The Practical Theology of Thomas F. Torrance" (2024): 123-174	The Christology of Thomas F. Torrance and the Coptic Church
Paul D. Molnar, The Centrality of Christ in the Theology of Thomas F. Torrance: Some Dogmatic Implications (London: T&T Clark, 2024)	The Centrality of Christ in the Theology of Thomas F. Torrance
Stavan Narendra John, "Thomas F. Torrance’s Theology of the Ascension: A Practical Theological Dogmatic Sketch," Participatio 12: "The Practical Theology of Thomas F. Torrance" (2024): 29-46	Thomas F. Torrance’s Theology of the Ascension
Hakbong Kim, "The Vicarious Humanity of Christ and the Sacramental Action of the Church: The Promise of Social Ethics in the Theology of Thomas F. Torrance," Participatio 12: "The Practical Theology of Thomas F. Torrance" (2024): 9-27	The Vicarious Humanity of Christ and the Sacramental Action of the Church
Paul Louis Metzger, "The Existential Significance of T. F. Torrance’s Christocentric Theology for Pastoral and Palliative Care," Participatio 12: "The Practical Theology of Thomas F. Torrance" (2024): 71-92	The Existential Significance of T. F. Torrance’s Christocentric Theology for Pastoral and Palliative Care
Victor A. Shepherd, Review of Paul D. Molnar, The Centrality of Christ in the Theology of Thomas F. Torrance: Some Dogmatic Implications (London: T&T Clark, 2024), Participatio 12: "The Practical Theology of Thomas F. Torrance" (2024): 217-244	Review of Paul D. Molnar, The Centrality of Christ
Chancellor Stillwell, "Preaching a Faith Not Our Own: Torrance and the Vicarious Faith of Christ," Participatio 12: "The Practical Theology of Thomas F. Torrance" (2024): 47-70	Preaching a Faith Not Our Own

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2011, Walker, Robert T.	The Dogmatics Lectures of Thomas F. Torrance
1986, Trook, Douglas A.	The Unified Christocentric Field
2008, Kang, Phee Seng (Pisheng Jiang)	Kexue yu zongjiao duihua zai zhongguo
2006, Kang, Phee Seng (Pisheng Jiang)	Bridging Science and Religion in China
428, Damin, Wu, Torrance, Thomas	Selected Works of Thomas Torrance
n.d., Torrance, Thomas F.	War Service – Middle East & Italy: 1943-45
2006, Torrance, Annie E., Walker, Grace Brownlee Torrance, Torrance, David W.	Memoirs of Annie Elizabeth Sharpe
1982	The Westminster Confession in the Church Today
1975, Barth, Karl	Church Dogmatics I/1, The Doctrine of the Word of God, Part I
2016, Scandrett, Joel	Christ Clothed with His Gospel
2011, Scandrett, Joel, Snyder, Howard A.	Salvation Means Creation Healed
1643, Walaeus, Antonius	Opera omnia
1848, M'Crie, Thomas, the Younger, Miller, Hugh, Anderson, James, Fleming, John, Balfour, J. H.	The Bass Rock
1996, Torrance, Thomas F.	The Christian Doctrine of God
1938, Barth, Karl	The Knowledge of God and the Service of God
1965, Torrance, Thomas F.	Theology in Reconstruction
1958, Torrance, Thomas F.	Relations Between Presbyterian and Anglican Churches
2011, Munchin, David	Is Theology a Science?
1933, Macmurray, John	Interpreting the Universe
1936, Macmurray, John	Interpreting the Universe

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