James M. Houston is Board of Governors' Professor of Spiritual Theology at Regent College. Previously, he was University Lecturer at Oxford University. He is author of I Believe in the Creator, In Search of Happiness, The Heart's Desire: A Guide to Personal Fulfillment, The Transforming Power of Prayer: Deepening Your Friendship with God., Joyful Exiles, and Letters of Faith Through the Seasons.
The Trinity, the Human Person and Community
Speaker(s): James Houston, James Torrance
Date: 1999
Length: 16h 20 min
Product ID: RGDL2911S
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Description
The Triune God of Love has created us in his image to find our true humanity in loving communion with Him and one another, as persons living in community. In this series, the rise of Western individualism, its roots in Platonic and Stoic thought and the influence of Cartesian rationalism will be examined and set against theological critiques from Kierkegaard to Jacques Mounier, Emil Brunner and John MacMurray, to C.S. Lewis. Lectures include:
- Individual and Person, Society and Community - Torrance
- The Modern History of the Self - Houston
- The Trinitarian Understanding of Humanity - Torrance
- The Image of God in Man - Houston
- The Negation of Our True Humanity - Torrance
- The Double Knowledge of God and Man - Houston
- Reconciliation - Torrance
- Soren Kierkegaard for Post-Modern Christians - Houston
- Worship, Prayer, and the Trinity - Torrance
- The Mentored Life - Houston
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James B. Torrance (1923-2003) was Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at the University of Aberdeen and an ordained minister of the Church of Scotland. The author of Worship, Community and the Triune God of Grace, he was also the Joint Chairman of the British Council of Churches Commission on the Doctrine of the Trinity.
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