Been busy welcoming the six other UK Baptist College Principals to Scotland. This is an important network of friendship, collaborative planning, pastoral interest in each other and intellectual stimulus. Twenty four hours from lunch to lunch means not much time for discretionary stuff like blogging. More than made up for by good conversation and the encouragement of work owned, shared and done.
Did get time to open my most recent Amazon package though, with one of my looking forward to reading between Semesters books – Paul Molnar, Thomas Torrance. Theologian of the Trinity. Ashgate have sensibly, even mercifully, issued it in paperback at a very fair price, around £16 and high quality production – their hardbacks are usually just too expensive, though are beautifully produced, and a joy to handle.
I'm expecting the second volume of Torrance's Dogmatics lectures on the atonement to arrive soon as well. As we move into late Advent, then beyond to Epiphany and Easter and Pentecost, I expect to be in the good company of Scotland's greatest theologian of the 20th Century. Incidentally, I think the cover photo of Professor Torrance is superb, showing him in his later years, indomitable, contented, eyes open to truth and mystery, and a smile that might be quizzical or knowing.
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