Thomas Forsyth Torrance (1913-2007), apart from being one of the greatest English-language theologians of the last two centuries, is one of the most significant theological influences on my own thinking, not least on account of his pioneering work on theologically rigorous engagement with the natural sciences. My account of his intellectual development and significance for the constructive development of a scientific theology, can be found in T. F. Torrance: An Intellectual Biography. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1999. Torrance is an outstanding representative of an incarnational theology presented with scientific rigor, and grounded in a trinitarian epistemology of the self-revealing act of God. My own approaches to scientific theology, and especially natural theology, reflect his influence and stimulus.

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