It’s been more than a year or so now that I’ve been listening over and over again the audio lectures by both the brother theologians James B. Torrance and Thomas F. Torrance and it’s been very inspiring and uplifting for me in my spiritual journey.

As promised, I will post here some quotes whenever I get the chance. Here’s a portion from Part 6 of Thomas F. Torrance’s lecture on the Mediation of Christ which he gave in 1981 to seminary students:

“Here in Jesus, we have the one true authentic person, the one utterly sincere person. He is the one person that has no schizoid tendencies in him. No insincerities, no darkness, utter transparency and truth and he is the only one who can be the source of genuinely personal relations, and therefore he alone can mediate between God and man, and mediate the reconciling love.

“Jesus Christ is the mediator of our humanity. Not one of us is the man he ought to be. I am not the man I ought to be… If there were no gap between what we are and what we ought to be, we would have no moral obligation. So that the kind of moral obligation we have in our fallen humanity belongs to the fact that we are not the man that we ought to be. But the more we try to be moral, the more we try to be just, in this gap, the more we distort concepts of ethics, morality and justice. And that is our problem in the modern world and in society. But in Jesus you have the only man who was and is the man he ought to be.

“And it is because in him the gap between the is and the ought have been healed, that he can humanize us. He is not only the personalizing person but he is the humanizing man. The one man that really humanizes us. If Jesus Christ is the source, the Creator source of all being and heaven and earth and all humanity and every man inheres and has his being in him. And If it is that Word, that Logos who became incarnate in Jesus, and if in Jesus the divine and human natures are one… Jesus in his humanity, in his human being is the ontological ground and the source of every person’s being, every man, every woman’s being whether he is a believer or not, whatever race or family he comes from. His humanity is rooted and grounded in the humanity of Jesus. “

I hope to share more as time permits. Till next time.