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This classic study establishes a sound theological base for the future of philosophical science. Torrance’s view was that science needs theology to properly maintain a requirement for contingency and to avoid ascribing eternality to the cosmos. Because scientific exploration is limited in its ability to know all things, Torrance argues for theological science. In order to avoid error, he argues...

in the basic concept of contingence. And here we turn to the point stressed by St Paul that in view of the incarnation and resurrection of the eternal Son of God in Jesus Christ, we must think of all visible and invisible realities in the created cosmos as sustained, conserved and reconciled by him and in him. That is, not simply by and in him as the eternal Creator Word of God but as the Creator Word of God incarnate in space and time, and receptively triumphant over all evil and disorder. And this
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