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• Press Release, January 24, 2008
• T.F. Torrance Collection Donated to Princeton Seminary

• 2007 Annual Meeting information
• Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, CA.
• Betsy B Room
• Paper to be presented by Dr. Eric Flett
• Persons, Powers and Pluralities: Thomas F. Torrance's Trinitarian Ontology of Culture
• Throughout the work of Thomas F. Torrance one finds the assertion that distinctively Christian, and essentially trinitarian, assumptions in the doctrines of God, creation and humanity had an important influence upon the development of the natural sciences. Torrance's life work has been focused upon developing these connections, specifically in relation to the 'scientific' culture of the West. But might these same assumptions also provide a rationale for the phenomena of culture in general (its nature, purpose and plurality), and not simply the specifically Western scientific forms of culture that most interested Torrance? This paper will suggest that the underlying assumptions that fueled Torrance's engagement with Western scientific culture (God as triune, creation as contingent and the human person as a priest of creation) also provide the ontological assumptions necessary for understanding the nature, purpose and plurality of human culture in the economy of God.
• Eric G. Flett (M.A., Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Theology and Religious Studies, King's College, London) is Associate Professor of Theology and Culture at Eastern University near Philadelphia, PA. He teaches courses in systematics, theology of culture and contextual theology and is presently writing a book on theology and culture for inclusion in the Eerdmans Guides to Theology series.

• 2007 Letter from our President