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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Archived meetings
- Fall 2020 (T&T Clark Handbook of Thomas F. Torrance)
- Spring 2021
- Summer 2021
- Fall 2021
- Spring and Summer 2022
- Fall 2022
- Spring and Summer 2023
- Fall 2023
- 2024
- January 2, 2025
- KEN ROSS
- § 4 The Place of the Human Subject in Knowledge pp. 85-105
- KEN ROSS
- January 9
- PAUL MOLNAR
- Discussing Paul's new book The Centrality of Christ in the Theology of T. F. Torrance , 2024
- PAUL MOLNAR
- January 16
- KEN ROSS
- Theological Science, Chapter 3 The Nature of Scientific Activity
- § 1 General and Special Science pp. 107-115
- Theological Science, Chapter 3 The Nature of Scientific Activity
- KEN ROSS
- 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
- BILL FORD
- February 6
- February 13
- SIMON RUSSELL-BROWN
- Theological Science, § 3 The Scientific Requirements of Theology pp. 131-140
- SIMON RUSSELL-BROWN
- February 20
- February 27 -
- TRAVIS STEVICK
- Theological Science, Chapter 4 The Nature of Truth§ 1 The Truth of God pp. 141-160
- March 6
- March 13 -
- TRAVIS STEVICK
- Theological Science § 2 The Truthfulness of Theological Statements
- Existence-statements and Coherence-Statements pp. 161-72
- March 20 -
- 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
- JOEL SCANDRETTE
- April 10 -
- PAUL MOLNAR
- Theological Science, Chapter 5 Problems of Logic
- § 1 The Logic of God pp. 205-221
- April 17
- April 26
- TRAVIS STEVICK
- Theological Science § 2 The Logic of Man
- The Logic of Existence-statements pp. 226-45
- Theological Science § 2 The Logic of Man
- TRAVIS STEVICK
- May 1
- May 8
- TRAVIS STEVICK
- Theological Science, The Logic of Coherence-statements pp. 246-262
- TRAVIS STEVICK
- 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
- TRAVIS STEVICK
- 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
- KERRY MAGRUDER
- 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
- MARTY FOLSOM
- July 24
- July 31 -
- JEROME VAN KUIKEN
- Theological Science § 3 Theology as Dogmatic Science pp. 337-352
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