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Sermon: Reality is Relational
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Comments (5) It was science that first drew me in to the theology of T. F. Torrance. I didn’t even believe in God at the time, but when I heard our new theology professor John McKenna had studied under Einstein, I had to give him a listen. The rest is history.
But it’s the science side of Torrance that has been the hardest for me to articulate to others — how the theologians the world needs right now are theologians who are also scientists, and how post-Einsteinian science has a lot of help to offer theologians as we attempt to dig ourselves out of our Augustinian ditches.
Anyway, I tried to communicate that in a recent sermon, and I think it went well, so I wanted to share it with my Trinity and Humanity family. My topic is what Torrance liked to call “onto-relations” — relations between things that make those things what they are. I talk about how science impacts our ways of thinking about God, and how that affects our ability to love God and love our neighbors.
The sermon started with a video clip, so I thought I’d include that too: