I am very excited, I just received my copy of Thomas Torrance’s Atonement: The Person and Work of Christ — this is the companion volume to Torrance’s recently published work, Incarnation. I wanted to share what Bruce McCormack (Princeton Theological Seminary) had to say about this book:

The posthumous publication of T. F. Torrance’s New College lectures on soteriology is indeed an event. What is intended here is an account of the saving work of Christ which does justice to the full sweep of biblical testimony (Old Testament as well as New). What is achieved is something on the order of a model of models — an appropriation of the values resident in traditional ontological, forensic and moral models in an original synthesis that commands attention and respect. Torrance’s stature as the leading Scottish theologian of the twentieth century will only be enhanced by these lectures, ably edited by Robert Walker. (back jacket)

Doesn’t this whet your appetite? It should. This book should be read in conjunction with the first volume Incarnation; in other words read “Incarnation” first, this book builds on the material in that one. Also this book is not for the faint of heart, it is close to 500 pages long; but hey, it’s TFT, so it is well worth! Anyway, I look forward to sharing from this book in the future; as most of you know, TFT serves as a very powerful informing voice for Evangelical Calvinism (which probably turns most Classic Calvinists off, which is really too bad!).