Meet Tom Torrance

Thomas Forsyth Torrance (30 August 1913 – 2 December 2007) was a 20th century Protestant Christian theologian who served for 27 years as Professor of Christian Dogmatics at New College, Edinburgh in the University of Edinburgh, during which time he was a leader in Protestant Christian theology. While he wrote many books and articles advancing his own study of theology, he also translated several hundred theological writings into English from other languages. Torrance edited the English translation of the thirteen-volume, six-million-word Church Dogmatics (germ. “Die Kirchliche Dogmatik”) of celebrated Swiss theologian Karl Barth. Torrance’s work has been influential in the paleo-orthodox movement, and he is widely considered to be one of the most important Reformed theologians of his era.
Torrance was born to Scottish missionary parents while they were serving in Chengdu, Szechuan, China. He first studied Classics at the University of Edinburgh and University of Oxford before receiving an academic scholarship that brought him to the University of Basel in Basel, Switzerland. There, Torrance studied under theologian Karl Barth — whom he had long admired — and the experience made him a life-long Barthian.
Torrance initially served as a professor at Auburn Theological Seminary in New York City, U.S., but resigned the post two years later with the outbreak of World War II. He served as a chaplain during the war, and then after the war moved to Scotland and served as a Church of Scotland parish minister for a decade. Torrance was then offered a professorship at New College, Edinburgh in the University of Edinburgh to teach church history. Because of his thorough understanding of theology he was later installed as Professor of Christian Dogmatics, a position that he held from 1952 to 1979.
He was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1976 (his son Iain held the same post in 2003).
In 1978, he won the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion for his contributions to theology and the relationship between it and science.
He was influential in work on theological method and the relationship between theology and science. Opposed to dualistic thought, he argued that modern science is similar to theology in that it is developed in terms of relation and integration: each has its distinctive method, and each is fully rational. (From wikipedia.org Though this is a Wikipedia bit, it constitutes an accurate snippet for starters.)