PHOTOGRAPHS AND MAPS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE EMERGENCE OF A SCIENTIFIC THEOLOGIAN -- 1. Childhood: Sichuan, China: 1913-27 -- Thomas Torrance Senior: missionary in Chengdu -- Marriage and early family life -- Political instability: the decision to leave China -- 2. Education: Scotland and Beyond, 1927-38 -- Edinburgh: the Faculty of Arts, 1931-4 -- The Faculty of Divinity: New College, 1934-7 -- The Middle East: the Blackie Fellowship, 1936 -- Basel: the encounter with Barth, 1937-8 -- 3. America: Auburn Theological Seminary, 1938-9 -- The Auburn Lectures on theology -- Where next? Chicago and Princeton -- Parish and Wartime Service, 1940-50 -- Oriel College, Oxford, 1939-40 -- Parish ministry: Alyth, 1940-3 -- War service: 1943-5 -- Parish ministry: from Alyth to Beechgrove, 1945-50 -- The call to New College, 1950 -- 5. Professor at Edinburgh, 1950-79 -- From Church History to Dogmatics -- Ecumenical engagement: a Reformed perspective -- Barth's successor at Basel? -- PART TWO -- THE CONTOURS OF A SCIENTIFIC THEOLOGY -- Introduction -- 6. Torrance and British Barth-Reception -- Barth-reception: regional perspectives -- Scandinavia -- England -- Scotland -- The mechanics of Barth-reception -- The translation: the Church Dogmatics -- The journal: the Scottish Journal of Theology -- The publisher: T & T Clark -- The platform: Edinburgh University Faculty of Divinity -- Torrance on the significance of Barth -- Torrance's use of Barth in the Auburn Lectures, 1938-9 -- Torrance's interpretation of the significance of Barth. 7. Revelation and Salvation: The Place of Jesus Christ in Christian Theology -- Early views: the Auburn Lectures -- The Christological foundations of revelation -- The relation of Christology and soteriology -- Influences on Torrance's approach to the Trinity -- Athanasius -- Hugh Ross Mackintosh -- Karl Barth -- John Calvin -- Christianity as a trinitarian faith -- The foundations of the doctrine of the Trinity -- The Trinity and the stratification of truth -- 8. The Place and Purpose of Natural Theology -- Natural theology and the Reformed tradition -- Barth's critique of natural theology -- Torrance's interpretation of Barth on natural theology -- Torrance's attitude to natural theology -- Torrance and the classic Reformed tradition -- Natural theology and the contingency of creation -- Dualism and natural theology -- 9. Theology and the Natural Sciences -- Theology and science: Torrance in relation to Barth -- The Auburn Lectures on science and theology -- Theology as a science -- Realism in science and theology -- The concept of order in theology and science -- Michael Polanyi: philosopher of science -- Space, time and incarnation -- Conclusion -- CURRICULUM VITAE -- UNPUBLISHED SOURCES -- A COMPLETE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PUBLISHED WRITINGS OF THOMAS F. TORRANCE 1941- Index.