Marty Folsom's T. F. Torrance Reading Group

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Marty Folsom's T. F. Torrance Reading Group meets via Zoom every Thursday, at 1 pm Pacific. All times below are US Pacific time (convert to your time using this World Clock). Topics are announced at Facebook. Access the meeting by joining the Facebook group. Or log in with a member account here, and a Zoom link will appear in the left sidebar. Interviews are conducted by Marty unless noted otherwise. The Reading Group is supported by the T. F. T. Fellowship although not an official Fellowship event.

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Please use this link as of January 2024 for connecting with the Reading Group READING GROUP

 

Archived meetings

 

  • January 2, 2025 
    • KEN ROSS
      • § 4 The Place of the Human Subject in Knowledge   pp.  85-105. Video.
  • January 9 
    • PAUL MOLNAR
      • Discussing Paul's new book The Centrality of Christ in the Theology of T. F. Torrance , 2024. Video. 
  • January 16  
    • KEN ROSS    
      • Theological Science, Chapter 3       The Nature of Scientific Activity  
        • § 1 General and Special Science          pp.   107-115        Video.    
  • January 23
    • David Munchin,
    • "Is theology a science?" Paul Feyerabend's anarchic epistemology as challenge test to T. F. Torrance's scientific theology, SJT (2011) : 439-455. Video.
  • January 30  
    • BILL FORD       
      • Theological Science, § 2 Theology and General Scientific Method      pp.   116-130 . Video.           
  • February 6 
    • MARTY FOLSOM
      • Macmurray sections of A Comparative Assessment of the Concept of Freedom in the Anthropologies of John Macmurray, John Zizioulas, and Karl Barth, PhD (Otago, 1994). Video.
  • February 13   
    • SIMON RUSSELL-BROWN   
      • Theological Science, § 3 The Scientific Requirements of Theology      pp. 131-140 Video.                                                                                         
  • February 20  
    • Tapio Luoma, "Thomas F. Torrance" in The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity, edited by J.B. Stump and Alan G. Padgett (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012): 578-88.
      Discussion by Marty Folsom. Video. 
  • February 27      
    • TRAVIS STEVICK 
    • Theological Science, Chapter 4      The Nature of Truth§ 1 The Truth of God                                                    pp. 141-160      
  • March 6    
    • DOUGLAS TROOK
    • The Unified Christocentric Field: Toward a Time-Eternity Relativity Model for Theological Hermeneutics in the Onto-Relational Theology of Thomas F. Torrance (Drew, PhD, 1986), pp. 1-51. Video
  • March 13 
    •  TRAVIS STEVICK                
    • Theological Science § 2 The Truthfulness of Theological Statements    
      • Existence-statements and Coherence-Statements           pp.  161-72   
  • March 20
    • TAPIO LUOMA,  Incarnation and Physics: Natural Science in the Theology of Thomas F. Torrance (Oxford, 2002), pp. 3-27 - Introduction and Torrance's Thought in Outline. 
    • The author will join is for this session. 
  • March 27     
    • TRAVIS STEVICK
    • Theological Science, Theological Statements: Their Nature and Justification -   pp.  173-202     
  • April 3 
    • JOEL SCANDRETTE
      • SUFFERING SERVANT, WOUNDED WORD, TROUBLED TRINITY: THE PASSION OF GOD IN THE THEOLOGY OF T. F. TORRANCE, PhD from Drew, 2005
  • April 10  
    • PAUL MOLNAR
    • Theological Science,  Chapter 5       Problems of Logic    
      • § 1 The Logic of God                      pp.  205-221      
  • April 17   
    • ERIC FLETT                       
  • April 26   
    • TRAVIS STEVICK
      • Theological Science § 2 The Logic of Man                      
        •      The Logic of Existence-statements                                          pp.  226-45     
  • May 1
    • ALAN TORRANCE
    • "Theism, Naturalism, and Cognitive Science: Can the Academy make Sense of Itself?" in Science, Consciousness, and Ultimate Reality, ed. by David Lorimer (Imprint Academic, 2004): 197-216. Video. 
  • May 8 
    • TRAVIS STEVICK        
      • Theological Science, The Logic of Coherence-statements                                          pp. 246-262   
  • May 15 MARTY VACATION SCANDANAVIA
  • May 22 MARTY VACATION
  • May 29 MARTY VACATION 
  •  June 5 
    • TRAVIS STEVICK    
      • Theological Science, Logical Formalizations in Theological Thinking                 pp. 263-80    
  • June 12           
  • June 19 - 
    • KERRY MAGRUDER 
      • Theological Science, Chapter 6       Theological Science Among the Special Sciences                                             1 Similarities and Differences between Theology and the Other Sciences,   Similarities –             pp.  286-294            
  • July 3 -           
    • KERRY MAGRUDER
    • Theological Science, Differences –           pp.   296-311  
  • July 10
  • July 17 -
    • MARTY FOLSOM               
      • Theological Science§ 2 The Relevance of Historical Science               pp.   312-336 
  • July 24
  • July 31 -             
    • JEROME VAN KUIKEN 
    • Theological Science § 3 Theology as Dogmatic Science          pp.  337-352          

 

 

 

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