The Princeton Seminary Bulletin, 2005, Vol. 26 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Princeton Theological Seminary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0243380461 ISBN 13: 9780243380466

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Princeton Seminary Bulletin, 2005, Vol. 26

R. Chairman, mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, I'm not quite why I'm doing this, and neither are you. What can I say, and how shall I say it? In a letter dated August 30, 1928 from West China, the Rev. Thomas Torrance wrote to T. F. Torrance: Dear Torn, This is your fifteenth birthday. I'm glad you have made a start in public. Keep on. To begin with, if you can tell a short story or incident and pack into it a message and an appeal, you'll find it easier to begin with and you'll speak to more purpose than by confining yourself to abstract speech. There's a template! The suggestion that I should say something tonight came the day after Elizabeth and I arrived here last month, and it's a great honor to be here. Before leaving London we called the registrar's office to find the nearest airport to Princeton, and we arrived in lax, on a fine sunny afternoon in late January. After a few days with our son and his wife in Westwood, California, we drove across to the Seminary, taking in a short detour to that archetypal Presbyterian festival, Mardi Gras in New Orleans. And so I stand before you tonight, a sheep in sheep's clothing, a simple Southern Californian, which gives me the chance to say a word of personal thanks to a couple of real Californians. We met them again by accident a few months back when we all happened to be visiting Tom Torrance. To their great generosity, I and generations of our Glasgow Peter Marshall scholars are hugely indebted: Tom and Barbara Gillespie.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0243380461
• ISBN 13: 9780243380466
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 132