Ronald Wallace

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Ronald Wallace (1911-2006) was Professor of Biblical Theology at Columbia Theological Seminary

Contents 1 Career Overview 2 Education 3 Family and Theological connections 4 Sources

[edit] Career Overview

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

[edit] Education

His secondary education took place at the Royal High School. At sixteen he matriculated at the University of Edinburgh 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. While Minister of St Kentigern's in Lanark he gained his PhD on on Calvin's Doctrine of the Word and Sacraments.

[edit] Family and Theological connections

In July 1937 he married Mary Moulin Torrance, the sister of Thomas Torrance. They had a son, David, and two daughters: Elizabeth and Heather. Wallace's nephews include theologians Iain Torrance and Alan Torrance; moreover, his son-in-law George Newlands is a leading academic theologian.

[edit] Sources

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