Ronald Wallace was Professor

Professor

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 of Biblical Theology

Biblical Theology

Biblical theology is a discipline within Christian theology which studies the Bible from the perspective of understanding the progressive history of God revealing Himself to humanity following the Fall and throughout the Old Testament and New Testament...

 at Columbia Theological Seminary

Columbia Theological Seminary

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Career Overview

• Brora
  Brora
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  , Minister without Charge
• 1940 Minister, Pollock Church, Glasgow
  Glasgow
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• Church of Scotland
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  's Huts and Canteens
• 1951 Minister, St Kentigern's Church, Lanark
  Lanark
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• 1958 Minister, Lothian Road Church, Edinburgh
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• 1964 Professor of Biblical Theology at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia
  Decatur, Georgia
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• 1977 Near East School of Theology, Beirut
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Education

His secondary education took place at the Royal High School

Royal High School (Edinburgh)

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. At sixteen he matriculated at the University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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 and studied a degree in civil engineering. He proceeded to the Faculty of Arts. Studies at in Divinity followed; he was a pupil of H.R. Macintosh and William Manson

William Manson

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. While Minister of St Kentigern's in Lanark

Lanark

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 he gained his PhD on on Calvin

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's Doctrine of the Word and Sacraments.

Family and Theological connections

In July 1937 he married Mary Moulin Torrance, the sister of Thomas Torrance

Thomas Torrance

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. They had a son, David, and two daughters: Elizabeth and Heather. Wallace's nephews include theologians Iain Torrance

Iain Torrance

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 and Alan Torrance; moreover, his son-in-law George Newlands

George Newlands

George McLeod Newlands is Emeritus Professor of Divinity at the University of Glasgow.- Background :George Newlands is a Scottish liberal Christian theologian...

is a leading academic theologian.

Sources

• Torrance, I.R. (1 March 2006) "Obituary: Professor Ronald Wallace" The Scotsman