What is it about?
An exposition of a method of cognition in theology in which the human knower has a positive role in the generation of mental concepts, without imposing our cognitive forms on what is made known. This is accomplished in dialogue with Scottish theologian T.F. Torrance and his prioritization of the relationship between the divine nature and human nature in Jesus Christ over all facets of the divine-human relationship.
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Why is it important?
It explains that core to Torrance's theological method is the activity of the human knower and explains how Torrance accomplished a realist reversal of the construal of human agency in the epistemology of Immanuel Kant.
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T.F. Torrance is a significant exponent within the Barthian tradition. This essay demonstrates how Torrance carried Barth's concern with ethics (meaning the human response to the divine address) into the very act of theological cognition itself.
Alexander Irving
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This page is a summary of: The Hypostatic Union as Normative over the Relation of God’s Self-Revelation and Human Cognition in the Thought of T.F. Torrance, Irish Theological Quarterly, April 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0021140018768364.
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