In this post I’ll post updates of my Torrance-related activities for 2023 and 2024. Cf. Torrance updates for 2022 and 2021.
July 6, 2023
Marty Folsom’s Torrance Reading Group, discussion of Thomas F. Torrance, “The Sovereign Creator,” in The Christian Doctrine of God: One Being Three Persons (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1996), 203-234; #1996-595i. Download Handout (pdf).
January 25, 2024
Marty Folsom’s Torrance Reading Group, Thomas F. Torrance, “The Transformation of Natural Theology,” in The Ground and Grammar of Theology (Charlottesville, Virginia: The University of Virginia Press; Belfast: Christian Journals, 1980), 75-109; #1980-369e. Download Handout (pdf).
The Thomas F. Torrance History of Science Collection
History of Science Collections
University of Oklahoma Libraries
Norman, Oklahoma, USA
The T. F. Torrance History of Science Collection (#2022-ou-1) is growing…
- List of materials received.
- Wanted list (not exhaustive). Donations welcome.
Short-term travel fellowships are available.
In October and November 2023, I was able to meet with a number of supporters of the Torrance Collection in Paris, England, and Scotland. I presented at the Firbush Torrance Retreat, meeting additional Torrance-interested persons there. Numerous additions to the Collection were made. Of particular note was a substantial donation from Bob and Jamie Walker of more than 50 books and some papers (the oldest book is Antonius Walaeus, Opera omnia (Lugduni Batavorum, 1643), 2 vols, which belonged to T. F. Torrance). See the list of materials received.
During my sabbatical (January-June 2024), I am working on a number of Torrance-related projects, including the oral histories, several articles (e.g., see handouts above), and a Love and the Cosmos book project (Preface PDF).
A video review of Bruce Ritchie on James Clerk Maxwell (and Torrance); cf. Bruce Ritchie, James Clerk Maxwell: Faith, Church and Physics (Edinburgh: Handsel Press, 2024); #2024-BR-1.
