Studies Bibliography

Forthcoming: Kerry V. Magruder, George MacDonald & the Scientific Imagination (Hamden, CT: Winged Lion Press, 2026)

Christopher R. Brewer, Understanding Natural Theology: Mapping the Terrain of Recent Approaches (Zondervan Academic, 2026) 

Tom Greggs, “Moving Beyond Reformation Pessimism or Pietist Personalism: Possibilities for Pneumatology in Evangelical Theology, in dialogue with T. F. Torrance,” keynote, Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship Annual Meeting, Boston, November 21, 2025.

Scott Harrower, "A Trinitarian life that can wrestle with the 'dark side' of faith: T. F. Torrance’s theological-spiritual direction for growing through religious struggles," keynote, Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship Annual Meeting, Boston, November 21, 2025.

Tom Greggs, “Moving Beyond Reformation Pessimism or Pietist Personalism: Possibilities for Pneumatology in Evangelical Theology, in dialogue with T. F. Torrance,” keynote, Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship Annual Meeting, Boston, November 21, 2025.

Scott Harrower, "A Trinitarian life that can wrestle with the 'dark side' of faith: T. F. Torrance’s theological-spiritual direction for growing through religious struggles," keynote, Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship Annual Meeting, Boston, November 21, 2025.

Jerome Van Kuiken, "Review of Divine Interpretation: Studies in Medieval and Modern Hermeneutics, edited by Adam Nigh and Todd Speidell (Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick, 2017)," Participatio Supplemental Volume 6: “Christ the Vicarious Human and Personalizing Person" (2025): 159-166; #2025-EJVK-4

Jerome Van Kuiken, "Review of Gospel, Church, and Ministry, edited by Jock Stein (Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick, 2012)," Participatio Supplemental Volume 6: “Christ the Vicarious Human and Personalizing Person" (2025): 149-158

Don J. Payne, "Review of Thomas F. Torrance and Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis, edited by Myk Habets and R. Lucas Stamps (Bellingham, Washington: Lexham Academic, 2023),"Participatio Supplemental Volume 6: “Christ the Vicarious Human and Personalizing Person" (2025): 141-148

Mike Tapper, "Review of Kevin J. Navarro, Trinitarian Doxology: T. F. and J. B. Torrance’s Theology of Worship as Participation by the Spirit in the Son’s Communion with the Father (Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick, 2020)," Participatio Supplemental Volume 6: “Christ the Vicarious Human and Personalizing Person" (2025): 137-139

Christian D. Kettler, "Responses to Others’ Essays," Participatio Supplemental Volume 6: “Christ the Vicarious Human and Personalizing Person" (2025): 131-134

Diane N. Ury, "Christ Our Holiness: The Role of Jesus’ Ascension in Entire Sanctification," Participatio Supplemental Volume 6: “Christ the Vicarious Human and Personalizing Person" (2025): 119-130

Trygve Johnson, "Freedom from Fatigue: Pastoring in the Secular Age with Christian Kettler." Participatio Supplemental Volume 6: “Christ the Vicarious Human and Personalizing Person" (2025): 97-117

M. William Ury, "T. F. Torrance and Participation in the Personalizing Person," Participatio Supplemental Volume 6: “Christ the Vicarious Human and Personalizing Person" (2025): 55-96

Jacob Lett, "Toward an Analogia Sanctificationis: Reconsidering Protestant Responses to the Analogia Entis," Participatio Supplemental Volume 6: “Christ the Vicarious Human and Personalizing Person" (2025): 37-53; #2025-JL2-1

Jerome Van Kuiken, "What is Jesus Up to? The Vicarious Humanity of Christ and Church History," Participatio Supplemental Volume 6: “Christ the Vicarious Human and Personalizing Person" (2025): 19-35; #2025-EJVK-2

Christian D. Kettler, "'Spiritual' Baptism in the Quakers (William L. Pearson of Friends University, 1849-1935) and the Baptism of Christ in the Theology of T. F. Torrance," Participatio Supplemental Volume 6: “Christ the Vicarious Human and Personalizing Person" (2025): 7-18; #2025-CDK-1

Jerome Van Kuiken, "Editor's Introduction," Participatio Supplemental Volume 6: "Christ the Vicarious Human and Personalizing Person" (2025): 3-4

Participatio Supplemental Volume 6: “Christ the Vicarious Human and Personalizing Person" (2025); 2025-P-2

Stavan Narendra John, Thomas F. Torrance's Theology of the Ascension: A Constructive Account, Re-Envisioning Reformed Dogmatics (Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2025)

Robert J. Wozniak, "Scientific Imagination as locus of Theology," Religions 16, no. 4 (2025): 467; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16040467

Christopher Woznicki, “The Vicarious Mission of Christ and the Church,” Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 22, 2024

Myk Habets, "The Vagaries of Theology: Thomas F. Torrance and Practical Theology," Participatio 12: "The Practical Theology of Thomas F. Torrance" (2024): 175-213

Emmanuel Gergis, "The Christology of Thomas F. Torrance and the Coptic Church: A Bridge to Ecumenism," Participatio 12: "The Practical Theology of Thomas F. Torrance" (2024): 123-174

Paul D. Molnar, The Centrality of Christ in the Theology of Thomas F. Torrance: Some Dogmatic Implications (London: T&T Clark, 2024)

Victor A. Shepherd, Review of Paul D. Molnar, The Centrality of Christ in the Theology of Thomas F. Torrance: Some Dogmatic Implications (London: T&T Clark, 2024), Participatio 12: "The Practical Theology of Thomas F. Torrance" (2024): 217-244

Jenny Richards, "Holistic Justice: Using the Work of T. F. Torrance and J. B. Torrance to Reframe Responses for Christian Women Experiencing Domestic and Family Violence," Participatio 12: "The Practical Theology of Thomas F. Torrance" (2024): 93-121

Paul Louis Metzger, "The Existential Significance of T. F. Torrance’s Christocentric Theology for Pastoral and Palliative Care," Participatio 12: "The Practical Theology of Thomas F. Torrance" (2024): 71-92

Chancellor Stillwell, "Preaching a Faith Not Our Own: Torrance and the Vicarious Faith of Christ," Participatio 12: "The Practical Theology of Thomas F. Torrance" (2024): 47-70

Stavan Narendra John, "Thomas F. Torrance’s Theology of the Ascension: A Practical Theological Dogmatic Sketch," Participatio 12: "The Practical Theology of Thomas F. Torrance" (2024): 29-46

Hakbong Kim, "The Vicarious Humanity of Christ and the Sacramental Action of the Church: The Promise of Social Ethics in the Theology of Thomas F. Torrance," Participatio 12: "The Practical Theology of Thomas F. Torrance" (2024): 9-27

Daniel J. Cameron and Myk Habets, "Editorial," Participatio 12: "The Practical Theology of Thomas F. Torrance" (2024): 3-8

Daniel J. Cameron and Myk Habets, "Editorial," Participatio 12: "The Practical Theology of Thomas F. Torrance" (2024): 3-8

Participatio 12: "The Practical Theology of Thomas F. Torrance" (2024); #2024-P-2

Jacob Chengwei Feng, "From 'Bridge' to 'Starlink': An Update on Kang Phee Seng’s Model of Theology and Science Dialogue Toward a Chinese Theology of Science on Creativity," Theology and Science (2024), 1–18

Hamish Maclean, "A Theological and Contextual Exploration of James Torrance’s Covenant or Contract?" International Journal of Public Theology 2 (2024): 191-206

Andrew McGeorge-Hill, "Justifying Roy Bhaskar’s 'Alethic Truth' Through T. F. Torrance’s Theological Critical Realism," Theology and Science 22, no. 1 (2024): 1-18

Andrew Picard, Colin Gunton’s Trinitarian Theology of Culture: Towards a Living Sacrifice of Praise, T&T Clark Studies in English Theology (T&T Clark, 2024)

J. Cameron Fraser, Evangelicals and Abortion: Historical, Theological, Practical Perspectives (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2024)

Jonathon Lookadoo, "What Justification? Pauline Reception and the Interpretation of Phld. 8.2," Religions 15 (2024): 405

Cairns Craig, "'This is today/Raised out of history': Kenneth White, Existentialism and the Other Side of History​​​​​​​," Scottish Journal of History 13, no. 1 (2024): 78-100

Thomas A. Noble, "The Theological Curriculum," in Svetlana Khobnya, Arseny Ermakov, Deirdre Brower Latz, Peter Rae, MiJa Wi, eds., The Holy People of God: Identity, Contexts, Challenges (Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2024), 213-222

Laura Cerbus, "The Beauty of the Body and the Ascension: A Reclamation and Subversion of Physical Beauty," Scottish Journal of Theology Published online (2024):1-11.

Hugh Morrison, Protestant Missionary Children’s Lives, c.1870–1950: Empire, Religion, and Emotion, Studies in Imperialism (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024)

Martin Jakobsen, "Evangelical Ecotheology: How the Resurrection Entails Creation Care," Studies in Christian Ethics (2024): online

Warren Thompson, "Being Seen Is Believing: Evidence and Authority in the Ache Mission Encounter," Journal of Anthropological Research (Pre-print Published online February 19, 2024)

Bruce Ritchie, James Clerk Maxwell: Faith, Church and Physics (Edinburgh: Handsel Press, 2024)

Marty Folsom, Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics for Everyone, Volume 3: The Doctrine of Creation, A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners and Pros. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Academic, 2022.

Marty Folsom, Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics for Everyone, Volume 2: The Doctrine of God, A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners and Pros. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Academic, 2022.

Christian D. Kettler, Review of Todd Speidell, Greg Marcar, and Andrew Torrance, eds., Søren Kierkegaard: Theologian of the Gospel (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 2021), Participatio 11: "The Priority of Grace in the Theology of T. F. Torrance" (2023), 229-233; #2023-CDK-2

E. Jerome van Kuiken, "Up, Up and Away: Christian Kettler's Corpus and the Rise of 'Affective Barthianism': A Review Essay," Participatio 11: "The Priority of Grace in the Theology of T. F. Torrance" (2023), 213-228; #2023-EJVK-2

Ivor J. Davidson, Review of Paul D. Molnar, Freedom, Necessity, and the Knowledge of God in Conversation with Karl Barth and Thomas F. Torrance (T&T Clark, 2022), Participatio 11: "The Priority of Grace in the Theology of T. F. Torrance" (2023), 201-212; #2023-IJD-1

Christian D. Kettler, "Response to Todd H. Speidell," Participatio 11: "The Priority of Grace in the Theology of T. F. Torrance" (2023), 191-198; #2023-CDK-1

Todd H. Speidell, "The Soteriological Suspension of Ethics in the Theology of T. F. Torrance," Participatio 11: "The Priority of Grace in the Theology of T. F. Torrance" (2023), 151-190; #2023-THS-1

Paul D. Molnar, "Torrance, Justification by Grace Alone, and 'Liberation Theology,'" Participatio 11: "The Priority of Grace in the Theology of T. F. Torrance" (2023), 101-150; #2023-PDM-2

Todd H. Speidell, "Interview with Paul D. Molnar," Participatio 11: "The Priority of Grace in the Theology of T. F. Torrance" (2023), 81-97; #2023-THS-2

Todd H. Speidell, "Interview with Paul D. Molnar," Participatio 11: "The Priority of Grace in the Theology of T. F. Torrance" (2023), 81-97; #2023-THS-2

Jeremy S. Begbie, "Incarnation, Creation, and New Creation: T. F. Torrance and a Theological Re-Visioning of the Arts," Participatio 11: "The Priority of Grace in the Theology of T. F. Torrance" (2023), 61-79; #2023-JSB-1

Paul D. Molnar, "Conflicting Visions of Grace and Nature: Appraising the Views of Thomas F. Torrance and Karl Rahner," Participatio 11: "The Priority of Grace in the Theology of T. F. Torrance" (2023), 3-59;  #2023-PDM-1

Myk Habets, Jeremy Begbie, Kimlyn J. Bender, Darren Sarisky, and Paul D. Molnar, Panel Discussion of Paul D. Molnar, Freedom, Necessity, and the Knowledge of God: In Conversation with Karl Barth and Thomas F. Torrance, Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November 17, 2023.

Myk Habets, Jeremy Begbie, Kimlyn J. Bender, Darren Sarisky, and Paul D. Molnar, Panel Discussion of Paul D. Molnar, Freedom, Necessity, and the Knowledge of God: In Conversation with Karl Barth and Thomas F. Torrance, Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November 17, 2023.

Myk Habets, Jeremy Begbie, Kimlyn J. Bender, Darren Sarisky, and Paul D. Molnar, Panel Discussion of Paul D. Molnar, Freedom, Necessity, and the Knowledge of God: In Conversation with Karl Barth and Thomas F. Torrance, Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November 17, 2023.

Myk Habets, Jeremy Begbie, Kimlyn J. Bender, Darren Sarisky, and Paul D. Molnar, Panel Discussion of Paul D. Molnar, Freedom, Necessity, and the Knowledge of God: In Conversation with Karl Barth and Thomas F. Torrance, Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November 17, 2023.

Myk Habets, Jeremy Begbie, Kimlyn J. Bender, Darren Sarisky, and Paul D. Molnar, Panel Discussion of Paul D. Molnar, Freedom, Necessity, and the Knowledge of God: In Conversation with Karl Barth and Thomas F. Torrance, Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November 17, 2023.

Rachel Meakin, Thomas Torrance, China and the Qiang: Life in early 20th century Chengdu and among the Qiang of Western Sichuan. Exeter, Short Run Press, 2023.

Simeon Zahl, "Response to Van Kuiken," Participatio 10: "The Holy Spirit and Christian Experience" (2022): 235-240

Paul Louis Metzger, More Than Things: A Personalist Ethics for a Throwaway Culture (Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP Academic, 2023)

Stavan Narendra John, "Torrance and Global Evangelicalism: Some Potential Generative Exchanges with Contemporary Indian Evangelical Theology," in Thomas F. Torrance and Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis, ed. Myk Habets and R. Lucas Stamps, Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology (Bellingham, Washington: Lexham Academic, 2023), 308-325

Peter K. W. McGhee, "Toward a Trinitarian Theology of Work," in Thomas F. Torrance and Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis, ed. Myk Habets and R. Lucas Stamps, Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology (Bellingham, Washington: Lexham Academic, 2023), 282-307

Jenny Richards, "'Seeking Love, Justice and Freedom for All': Using the Work of T. F. and J. B. Torrance to Address Domestic and Family Violence," in Thomas F. Torrance and Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis, ed. Myk Habets and R. Lucas Stamps, Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology (Bellingham, Washington: Lexham Academic, 2023), 261-281

Geordie W. Ziegler, "Thinking and Acting in Christ: Torrance on Spiritual Formation," in Thomas F. Torrance and Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis, ed. Myk Habets and R. Lucas Stamps, Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology (Bellingham, Washington: Lexham Academic, 2023), 239-260

Myk Habets, "Torrance, Theosis, and Evangelical Reception," in Thomas F. Torrance and Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis, ed. Myk Habets and R. Lucas Stamps, Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology (Bellingham, Washington: Lexham Academic, 2023), 221-238

E. Jerome Van Kuiken, "Torrance and Christ’s Assumption of Fallen Human Nature: Toward Clarification and Closure," in Thomas F. Torrance and Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis, ed. Myk Habets and R. Lucas Stamps, Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology (Bellingham, Washington: Lexham Academic, 2023), 204-220

Christopher G. Woznicki, "Torrance and Atonement," in Thomas F. Torrance and Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis, ed. Myk Habets and R. Lucas Stamps, Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology (Bellingham, Washington: Lexham Academic, 2023), 179-203

Marty Folsom, "Barth, Torrance, and Evangelicals: Critiquing and Reinvigorating the Idea of a 'Personal Relationship with Jesus,'" in Thomas F. Torrance and Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis, ed. Myk Habets and R. Lucas Stamps, Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology (Bellingham, Washington: Lexham Academic, 2023), 156-178

Marc Cortez, "A Complexly Relational Account of the Imago Dei in Torrance’s Vision of Humanity," in Thomas F. Torrance and Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis, ed. Myk Habets and R. Lucas Stamps, Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology (Bellingham, Washington: Lexham Academic, 2023), 133-155

W. Ross Hastings, "Theology and Science in Torrance," in Thomas F. Torrance and Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis, ed. Myk Habets and R. Lucas Stamps, Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology (Bellingham, Washington: Lexham Academic, 2023), 111-132

Myk Habets, "Revelation, Rationalism, and an Evangelical Impasse," in Thomas F. Torrance and Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis, ed. Myk Habets and R. Lucas Stamps, Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology (Bellingham, Washington: Lexham Academic, 2023), 84-110

Andrew T. B. McGowan, "Torrance and the Doctrine of Scripture," in Thomas F. Torrance and Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis, ed. Myk Habets and R. Lucas Stamps, Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology (Bellingham, Washington: Lexham Academic, 2023), 64-83

Johnathan Warren P. (Pagán), "Torrance, the Tacit Dimension, and the Church Fathers," in Thomas F. Torrance and Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis, ed. Myk Habets and R. Lucas Stamps, Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology (Bellingham, Washington: Lexham Academic, 2023), 39-63

Thomas A. Noble, "Thomas F. Torrance and the Evangelical Tradition," in Thomas F. Torrance and Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis, ed. Myk Habets and R. Lucas Stamps, Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology (Bellingham, Washington: Lexham Academic, 2023), 8-38

Myk Habets and R. Lucas Stamps, "Introduction: Torrance and Evangelical Theology in Conversation," in Thomas F. Torrance and Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis, ed. Myk Habets and R. Lucas Stamps, Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology (Bellingham, Washington: Lexham Academic, 2023), 1-7

Myk Habets and R. Lucas Stamps, "Introduction: Torrance and Evangelical Theology in Conversation," in Thomas F. Torrance and Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis, ed. Myk Habets and R. Lucas Stamps, Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology (Bellingham, Washington: Lexham Academic, 2023), 1-7

Fred Sanders, "Foreword," in Thomas F. Torrance and Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis, ed. Myk Habets and R. Lucas Stamps, Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology (Bellingham, Washington: Lexham Academic, 2023), xv-xvii

Myk Habets and R. Lucas Stamps, eds., Thomas F. Torrance and Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis, Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology (Bellingham, Washington: Lexham Academic, 2023)

Myk Habets and R. Lucas Stamps, eds., Thomas F. Torrance and Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis, Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology (Bellingham, Washington: Lexham Academic, 2023)

Marty Folsom, Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics for Everyone, Volume 1: The Doctrine of the Word of God, A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners and Pros. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Academic, 2022.

Calum MacKellar, ed., Cyborg Mind: What Brain–Computer and Mind–Cyberspace Interfaces Mean for Cyberneuroethics (Berghahn Books, 2022)

E. Jerome Van Kuiken, review of Simeon Zahl, The Holy Spirit and Christian Experience (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)," Participatio 10: "The Holy Spirit and Christian Experience" (2022): 229-233

Thomas H. McCall, "God stakes his own being: Torrance and McCormack on God and evil after Barth," keynote presentation with discussion (Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship, Annual Meeting 2022)

D. T. Everhart, "The One vs. The Many: A Response to Woznicki and Crisp on the Christological Anthropology of T. F. Torrance," Journal of Analytic Theology 10 (2022): 293-308

Aasim I. Padela, "Integrating Science and Scripture to Produce Moral Knowledge: Assessing Maṣlaḥa and Ḍarūra in Islamic Bioethics and the Case of Organ Donation," in Islam and Biomedicine, ed. Afifi al-Akiti and Aasim I. Padela, Philosophy and Medicine no. 137 (Springer, 2022), 295-316, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53801-9_13

Christopher Woznicki, T. F. Torrance's Christological Anthropology: Discerning Humanity in Christ, Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies (London: Routledge, 2022)

Michael Paul Cartledge II, "Belief through the Darkness: The Vicarious Humanity of Christ as a Theological Framework for Educational Ministry Amid Depression," Journal of Disability & Religion 26 (2022)

Alister E. McGrath, "Place, history and incarnation: On the subjective aspects of christology," Scottish Journal of Theology 75 (2022): 137–147

The Thomas F. Torrance History of Science Collection, History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries

Thomas A. Noble and Jason S. Sexton, eds., British Evangelical Theologians of the Twentieth Century: An Enduring Legacy (London: Apollos, 2022)

Thomas A. Noble and Jason S. Sexton, eds., British Evangelical Theologians of the Twentieth Century: An Enduring Legacy (London: Apollos, 2022)

Robert T. Walker, "Thomas F. Torrance," in British Evangelical Theologians of the Twentieth Century: An Enduring Legacy, ed. Thomas A. Noble and Jason S. Sexton (London: Apollos, 2022), 197-219

Thomas A. Noble, The Grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ, vol. 1 of Christian Theology, 3 vols. (Kansas City, Missouri: The Foundry Publishing, 2022)

Footnote citations for individual parts:

Thomas A. Noble, Faith and History, Part 1 of The Grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ, vol. 1 of Christian Theology, 3 vols. (Kansas City, Missouri: The Foundry Publishing, 2022)

Thomas A. Noble, Christology: The Doctrine of the Person of Christ, Part 2 of The Grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ, vol. 1 of Christian Theology, 3 vols. (Kansas City, Missouri: The Foundry Publishing, 2022)

Thomas A. Noble, Soteriology: The Doctrine of the Work of Christ, Part 3 of The Grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ, vol. 1 of Christian Theology, 3 vols. (Kansas City, Missouri: The Foundry Publishing, 2022)

Footnote citation for the entire work:

Thomas A. Noble, Christian Theology, 3 vols. (Kansas City, Missouri: The Foundry Publishing, 2022, vols. 2-3 forthcoming)

Paul D. Molnar, Freedom, Necessity, and the Knowledge of God in Conversation with Karl Barth and Thomas F. Torrance (T&T Clark, 2022)

Michael D. Morrison, ed., Trinitarian Conversations, Volume 2: Interviews With More Theologians (Charlotte, North Carolina: Grace Communion International, 2022)