Person, Personhood, and the Humanity of Christ

“In this valuable study, Dr. Hakbong Kim presents a deft account of T. F. Torrance’s holistic anthropology, showing its close links with the doctrine of God and the humanity of Christ. One of the most skillful and lucid articulations of Torrance to date, this points to the ethical potential of his dogmatic theology.”


—David Fergusson, Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge





“In this excellent new addition to the growing scholarship on T. F. Torrance, Hakbong Kim focuses on Torrance’s Trinitarian understanding of personhood, and how, through the humanity of Christ, the ‘personalizing person,’ God has acted to restore our true humanity. More successfully than the ‘social trinitarians,’ Torrance indicates how this restoration is worked out particularly through the church, and Kim works creatively to draw out the clear anthropological, ethical, and social implications.”


—T. A. Noble, past president of the T. F. Torrance Theological Fellowship





“This book will be of interest to anyone concerned to see how a properly functioning doctrine of the Trinity must take seriously the fact that our knowledge of God and relations with others are grounded in our reconciliation with God in Christ. The author helpfully argues that Torrance’s Christology does not neglect ethics, as has been sometimes claimed, but upholds ethics in a theologically appropriate way. Kim believes Torrance can provide a useful corrective to the weaknesses he identifies in social trinitarianism.”


—Paul D. Molnar, Professor of Systematic Theology, St. John’s University