Kingdom and Church: A Study in the Theology of the Reformation

by Thomas Torrance

Year 1956
Type Book
Genre eschatology
Tradition Reformed
Original language English

For For students of Reformation theology and of eschatology and the church; not for a general reader.

Should I read this?

For the general reader: 1 of 5 specialist interest
For the researcher: 4 of 5 important
Difficulty: 4 of 5 hard

Eschatology and the church in three Reformers: faith in Luther, love in Bucer, hope in Calvin.

How it proceeds

Philosophic 3 of 5
Scriptural 3 of 5
Experiential 1 of 5
Sociological 3 of 5
Historical 5 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

A study of the relation of eschatology to the life of the church in Luther, Martin Butzer (Bucer) and Calvin, published by Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, in 1956 and dedicated to Ernst Wolf and Otto Weber of Göttingen for their work toward understanding between the Lutheran and Reformed churches. Torrance's foreword says it grew from an essay on the eschatology of the Reformation in the Scottish Journal of Theology occasional paper Eschatology (1953), which had been published in German and in French. After an opening chapter on Reformation eschatology the book has three studies: the eschatology of faith in Luther, the eschatology of love in Butzer (reprinted from the Journal of Ecclesiastical History) and the eschatology of hope in Calvin, the longest of the three.

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Catalog IDW.915EGQ.X

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