A Pedagogy of Grace

This essay explores the manner in which James Torrance’s pedagogy corresponds intrinsically to his theology of grace. It also demonstrates how his pedagogy may have been influenced both positively and negatively by Friedrich Schleiermacher’s hermeneutics, particularly in its expression of an intellectual empathy that bears striking similarity to the Einfühlung espoused by many proponents of Romanticism. Torrance’s pedagogy, as this essay explains, goes well beyond Schleiermacher’s hermeneutics, however, not least in its critical capacities.