托伦斯

托伦斯

专门叙述被誉为二十世纪最具有影响力的改革宗神学家托伦斯(FT Torrence)的《如何认识托伦斯(How to read TF Torrance)》一书中,作者克勒(Elmer M. Colyer)对托伦斯神学的描述,总共有10处分别用到了“造(create)”这个词。以下是相关的页数和叙述:

Pg 82

..the incarnation of the Son of God in our human creaturely existence takes the from of hypostatic union in which the unique divine nature is fully united with a truly human nature in hirst’s one person

.…神的儿子在我们的被造的存有中之道成肉身,乃是在基督的独一位格中,以位格联合的形式,

Pg 103

In Jesus Christ, Torrance sees the Word of God as assimilating creaturely and human hearing and speaking as a constitutive ingredient in divine revelations….

拖伦斯在耶稣基督里看见神的道同化了被造人类的听觉和说话的能力,并把它们当做神圣启示中的一个组成部分。。。

Pg 104

Thus the hypostatic union between the divine and human natures in Jesus Christ, Torrance sees a complete union between God’s uncreated rationality and Word and contingent creaturely rationality and human word so that it is in the through Christ’s creaturely human word that the Word of God is mediated to all humanity.

在耶稣基督里,神性和人性的位格联合中,托伦斯看见一个在神的非受造的理性和话,以及祂被造的理性和话之完美联合。这让神的话(道)可以借由基督被造的人的话,成为万人的中保。

Pg 155

Torrance contends .. and even to become incarnate as a creature within his creation, while nevertheless remaining eternally the God that he always was.

托伦斯主张。。在他的创造中,道成肉身成为一个被造之物,然而同时仍然永远是那位永存的神。

Pg 159

Torrance views the creaturely humanity and suffering love of Jesus Christ as God’s actual way of self-­revelation and self-communication…

托伦斯看见耶稣基督被造的人性和受苦的爱乃是神自我启示和自我交流的实际方式。。。

Pg 165

We see the sovereignty of God personally and patiently clothed with and at work “in creaturely littleness and human weakness,” not as some impersonal and deterministic brute force.

我们乃是在神在自己的位格里、有耐心的穿上并工作在‘被造的卑微和人的软弱’中,看见神的主权。他不像某种非位格的,顽固的,毫无人性的力量。

Pg 168

It is fact that the Creator became a creature in the incarnation, in order to redeem a creation gone awry.

事实就是,在道成肉身中,造物主成了被造之物,好拯救那些偏行己路的被造之物。

Pg 175

Christian faith asserts that in the incarnation the very Word, or Logos, of God has become a creaturely human being within the materiality of the universe.

基督教的信仰坚信,在道成肉身中,那位神的道,或洛格斯在这个宇宙的物质世界中,成为一个被造的人类。

Pg 291

It is because God has become incarnate in Jesus Christ within the creaturely human structures of space and time….

因为神在耶稣基督里、在时间和空间中的被造的人性构造中,道成肉身。。。