The Place and Function of the Church in the World

by Thomas Torrance

  • Year 1942
  • Type Essay
  • Genre ecclesiology
  • Tradition Reformed
  • Original language English

For For readers interested in his wartime parish ministry and early thought on the church; not a general study of the church.

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A wartime booklet from his Alyth parish on the church's place and calling in the world. Short and early.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 2 of 5
  • Scriptural 3 of 5
  • Experiential 1 of 5
  • Sociological 3 of 5
  • Historical 1 of 5

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A booklet printed at Alyth in 1942, while Torrance was parish minister of the Barony Church there, with a foreword by D. F. Mackenzie, Moderator of the Presbytery of Meigle. It sets out the place and function of the church in the world, written in wartime for a Church of Scotland presbytery. It was reprinted as "The Church in the World" in Gospel, Church, and Ministry (2012), the first volume of his collected studies.

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