Fully Human in Christ: The Incarnation as the End of Christian Ethics

Todd Speidell

Nov 2016 · Wipf and Stock Publishers

About this ebook

Thomas F. Torrance's theology included a thoroughgoing, albeit implicit, ethic of reconciliation. It focused on the personalizing and humanizing mediation of Christ in all realms of life--including not only a supposed private dimension of human life but also the social, historical, and political structures of human society and even of the cosmos itself. This book builds upon that vision of a Christian ethic radically rooted in God's grace, which encompasses, sustains, and transforms the entire human and created order. A trinitarian-incarnational social ethic does not begin with our human causes, projects, and agendas, however noble they might be, but with witness to the reconciling person and work of Jesus Christ for us.

About the author

Todd Speidell (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is Instructor of Theology at Montreat College, Editor of Participatio: The Journal of the Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship, and General Editor of the Ray S. Anderson Collection (Wipf and Stock). His recent publications include his edited book Trinity and Transformation: J. B. Torrance's Vision of Worship, Mission, and Society (Wipf & Stock, 2016) and his coedited book T. F. Torrance and Eastern Orthodoxy: Theology in Reconciliation (Wipf & Stock, 2015)