I’ve got to agree with Bobby that Atonement ought to be read along with Incarnation. I’ve just finished reading them both straight through about a week ago and have to say that they belong together. Though I think the stuff in Incarnation represents what might be considered Torrance’s most characteristic contributions in terms of the saving reality of the Son’s unbreakable union with humanity in Jesus Christ, Atonement carries that through to its full implications in terms of the remission of sins, the indwelling of the Spirit, the canonizing of the apostolic tradition, and the building of the church. What you’ve said above about Incarnation being “the most systematic and complete presentation of Torrance’s thought available” I think can truly only be said about Incarnation and Atonement taken together.

If they are anything like me, readers of Torrance’s lectures just may find a sense of home, a resonance with the Gospel long-proclaimed in the Church but rarely heard clearly resounding in the academy.

This is what initially attracted to TFT, ever since I first read his Mediation, and what continues to attract me to him (to me Torrance makes Barth better).

After Incarnation everyone needs to read his “Atonement” (the companion vol to Incarnation), very good thus far (alot thicker, the page count)!

Thanks for sharing this Kent, your students are lucky to have someone using TFT to teach them about Jesus through.