Reading Group Fall 2022

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Fall 2022

  • August 11, 18, 25, 2022
    • Marty will be in France and we will take a break for these three weeks
  • September 1, 2022
    • T. F. Torrance, Space, Time and Resurrection (#1976-331), ch. 6 – The Nature of the Ascension Event; #1976-331h
    • Tom Noble discusses this chapter with Marty Folsom. Video.
  • September 8. 2022 - OFFICE HOURS with Marty Folsom. Video
  • September 15, 2022
    • HIDDEN TREASURES - T. F. Torrance, "Introduction" in William Manson, Jesus and the Christian (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1967), 9-23 (we will include some of the Manson text). Conversation with Marty Folsom Video.
  • September 22, 2022  - Join the Firbush Retreat - https://tftorrance.org/firbush2022-09 for a weekend of Torrance discussion
  • September 29, 2022  - FIRBUSH FOLLOWUP 
    • Thomas F. Torrance, "The Eldership in the Reformed Church," Scottish Journal of Theology 37 (1984): 503-518; #1984-441. Discussion with Marty Folsom. Video
  • October 6, 2022
    • HIDDEN TREASURES - Thomas F. Torrance, "The Theology of Light: A University Sermon," in The Christian Frame of Mind: Reason, Order, and Openness in Theology and Natural Science, 2d ed. (Colorado Springs, Colorado: Helmers & Howard, 1989), 147-155; #1989-505. Video.
  • October 13, 2022, Participatio Discussion - Anthropology 
    • Marty Folsom, "Thomas F. Torrance and Personalism: Distinctions, Clarifications, and Paths Forward for Christian Anthropology," Participatio 9, "Theological Anthropology" (2021): 69-94. Hosted by Geordie Zeigler. Video.
  • October 20, 2022
    • T. F. Torrance, Space, Time and Resurrection (#1976-331), ch. 7 – The Ascension and the Parousia of Christ; #1976-331i
    • Stavan John discusses this chapter with Marty Folsom. Video
  • October 27 - LISTENING - Hearing the voice of T. F. Torrance
    • Thomas F. Torrance, "Christian Theological Instinct" (Princeton Theological Seminary Media Archive, 1983); http://commons.ptsem.edu/id/5220, #1983-TFT-3 - This is a free resource. The sermon begins around 11:00 in the recording. Discussion with Marty Folsom. Video.
      • Additional resource -  Torrance, Thomas F. Theological Instinct. An audio recording of a lecture recorded in October, 2002. Vancouver, BC, Canada: Regent College, 2002; https://www.regentaudio.com/products/theological-instinct; #2002-TFT-4 This is available digitally for $5.00 from Regent. 
  • November 3, 2022
    • T. F. Torrance, Space, Time and Resurrection (#1976-331), ch. 8 – The Lord of Space and Time; #1976-331j
    • Robert Walker discusses this chapter with Marty Folsom. Video.
  • November 10, 2022 Participatio Discussion - Anthropology
    • Paul Louis Metzger, "The Import of Thomas F. Torrance’s Theological Anthropology for Addressing Racialization in Contemporary Society," Participatio 9, "Theological Anthropology" (2021): 129-156 discussion with Marth Folsom. Video.
  • November 18, 2022 - Friday!

    • AAR - Annual Keynote: Thomas H. McCall, "The Finality of the Cross Reconsidered: Thomas F. Torrance and the Barthian Legacy on the Soteriological Problem of Evil"

    • https://tftorrance.org/2022-keynote Video. Lecture begins at 41:40 in Vimeo. 
       
  • November 24, 2022
    • HAPPY THANKSGIVING - no Reading Group this day
  • December 1, 2022
    • T. F. Torrance, The Christian Doctrine of God (#1996-595), ch. 1 – Introduction; #1996-595b
    • Tom Noble discusses this chapter with Marty Folsom. Video.
  • December 8, 2022
  • December 15, 2022
    • OFFICE HOURS with Marty Folsom. Discussing heuristic processes and other questions. Video.
  • December 22, 2022
  • December 29, 2022 - Introduction to Theology and Science at the Frontiers of Knowledge Series, conversation with Marty Folsom. Video.