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    
      • § 1 The Logic of God pp.  205-221      Video. 
      • Book link: #1969-263. Chapter 5 link: #1969-263f.
  • April 17 
  • April 24   
    • TRAVIS STEVICK
      • Theological Science § 2 The Logic of Man                      
        •      The Logic of Existence-statements        pp.  222-46     
  • May 1
    • TRAVIS STEVICK        
      • Theological Science, 
        • The Logic of Coherence-statements           pp. 246-263   
  • May 8 
    • TRAVIS STEVICK    
      • Theological Science, 
        • ​​​​​​​Logical Formalizations in Theological Thinking  pp. 263-80    
  • 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
      • Book link: #1969-263. Chapter 6 link: #1969-263g.
  • June 19 
    • KERRY MAGRUDER 
      • Theological Science, 
        • ​​​​​​​Differences     pp.   295-312  
  • July 3 -           
  • July 10
  • July 17 
    • MARTY FOLSOM               
      • Theological Science§
        • 2 The Relevance of Historical Science   pp.   312-337 
  • July 24
  • July 31 -             
    • JEROME VAN KUIKEN 
    • Theological Science § 3 Theology as Dogmatic Science          pp.  337-352          

 

 

 

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