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. Interviews are conducted by Marty unless noted otherwise.

Please use this Zoom link for connecting with the READING GROUP.

 

Archived meetings

 

  • January 2, 2025 
    • KEN ROSS
      • Ch. 2, §4 The Place of the Human Subject in Knowledge   pp.  85-105. Video.
      • Book link: #1969-263. Chapter 2 link: #1969-263c (video embedded here).
  • January 9 
    • PAUL MOLNAR
      • Discussing Paul's new book The Centrality of Christ in the Theology of T. F. Torrance , 2024. Video. 
      • Book link: #2024-PDM-1 (video embedded here).
  • January 16  
    • KEN ROSS    
      • Theological Science, Chapter 3, The Nature of Scientific Activity  
  • 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.
      • Book link: #1969-263. Chapter 2 link: #1969-263c.
  • 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.         
      • Book link: #1969-263. Chapter 3 link: #1969-263d.                                                                       
  • 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  . Video.
    • Book link: #1969-263. Chapter 4 link: #1969-263e.
  • 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, Video.   
  • 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. Video
  • March 27     
    • TRAVIS STEVICK
    • Theological Science, Theological Statements: Their Nature and Justification -   pp.  173-202  Video.
  • April 3 
    • JOEL SCANDRETT
      • SUFFERING SERVANT, WOUNDED WORD, TROUBLED TRINITY: THE PASSION OF GOD IN THE THEOLOGY OF T. F. TORRANCE, PhD from Drew, 2005, Video.
  • April 10  
    • PAUL MOLNAR
    • Theological Science,  Chapter 5       Problems of Logic    
  • April 17 
  • April 24   
    • TRAVIS STEVICK
      • Theological Science § 2 The Logic of Man                      
        •      The Logic of Existence-statements        pp.  222-46     Video
  • May 1
    • TRAVIS STEVICK        
      • Theological Science, 
        • The Logic of Coherence-statements           pp. 246-263   Video
  • May 8 
    • TRAVIS STEVICK    
      • Theological Science, 
        • Logical Formalizations in Theological Thinking  pp. 263-80    Video
  • May 15 MARTY VACATION SCANDANAVIA
  • May 22 MARTY VACATION
  • May 29 MARTY VACATION 
  • June 5  MARTY VACATION
  • June 12           
    • KERRY MAGRUDER 
      • Theological Science, Chapter 6      
        •  Theological Science Among the Special Sciences                                             1 Similarities and Differences between Theology and the Other Sciences,   
          • Similarities – pp.  281-295 Video
      • Book link: #1969-263. Chapter 6 link: #1969-263g.
  • June 19 
    • KERRY MAGRUDER 
      • Theological Science, 
        • Differences     pp.   295-312  Video
  • June 26, 2025
    • MARTY FOLSOM

      • Thomas F. Torrance, "The Transcendental Role of Wisdom in Science," in Facets of Faith & Science, Volume 1, ed. by Jitse M. vander Meer, The Pascal Centre for the Advancement of Faith and Science (University Press of America, 1996), 131-49. VIDEO

  • July 3 
    • MARTY FOLSOM
    • Thomas F. Torrance, "Ultimate and Penultimate Beliefs in Science," in Facets of Faith & Science, Volume 1, ed. by Jitse M. vander Meer, The Pascal Centre for the Advancement of Faith and Science (University Press of America, 1996), 151-76.
    • Video. 
  • July 10
    • ​​​​​​​MARTY FOLSOM               
      • Theological Science§
        • 2 The Relevance of Historical Science   pp.   312-337 
  • July 17
  • July 24,
    • MARTY FOLSOM
    • Alan Torrance, "Theism, Naturalism, & Cognitive Science: Can the Academy Make sense of itself?" in Science Consciousness & Reality, ed. by David Lorimer (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2004), pp. 197-216. Video
  • July 31 -             
    • JEROME VAN KUIKEN 
    • Theological Science § 3 Theology as Dogmatic Science          pp.  337-352          
  • August 7, 2025 
    • OFFICE HOURS  - BRING A TOPIC 
  • August 14, 2025 Karl Barth: Biblical & Evangelical Theologian
    • Forward and Chapter 1 pp. 1-12. 
  • August 21, 2025 Karl Barth: Biblical & Evangelical Theologian
    • Chapter 1, pp. 12-26
  • August 28, 2025 Karl Barth: Biblical & Evangelical Theologian
    • Chapter 2, pp. 27-39
  • September 4, 2025
  • September 11, 2025 Karl Barth: Biblical & Evangelical Theologian
    • Chapter 2, pp. 40-61
  • September 18, 2025Karl Barth: Biblical & Evangelical Theologian
    • Chapter 2, pp. 61-82
  • September 25, 2025 Karl Barth: Biblical & Evangelical Theologian
    • Chapter 3, pp. 83-99
  • October 2, 2025
  • October 9, 2025 Karl Barth: Biblical & Evangelical Theologian
    • Chapter 3, 99-120
  • October 16, 2025
    • MARTY GONE SPEAKING​​​​​​​
  • October 23, 2025 Karl Barth: Biblical & Evangelical Theologian
    • Chapter 4, pp. 121-135
  • October 30, 2025 Karl Barth: Biblical & Evangelical Theologian
    • Chapter 5, pp. 136-159
  • November 6, 2025 Karl Barth: Biblical & Evangelical Theologian
    • Chapter 6, pp. 160-181
  • November 13, 2025 Karl Barth: Biblical & Evangelical Theologian
    • Chapter 7, pp. 182-97
  • November 20, 2025
    • AAR No Reading Group
  • November 27 2025  
    • THANKSGIVING
  • December 4 Karl Barth: Biblical & Evangelical Theologian
    • Chapter 7, pp. 198-212
  • December 11, 2025 Karl Barth: Biblical & Evangelical Theologian
    • Chapter 8, pp. 213-228
  • December 18, 2025, Karl Barth: Biblical & Evangelical Theologian
    • Chapter 8, pp. 228-40
  • December 25, 2025
    • CHRISTMAS

 

 

 

 

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