Alan Torrance (born 1956) is professor of Systematic Theology at St Mary’s College of the University of St Andrews. Previously he lectured at King’s College London from 1993–1998, where he was also Director of the Research Institute in Systematic Theology. He has been a member of four USA-funded research projects working on such diverse topics as faith and reason, brain-mind issues, forgiveness and politics, and theology and the built environment and with Professor Eric Priest, the solar physicist and mathematician) lunched the Gregory Lectures on Religion and Science. His teaching interests are primarily in the areas of philosophical and systematic theology, theological anthropology, person and work of Christ and theological ethics. He researches actively in the fields of Christology, the social implications of the doctrine of reconciliation, theological epistemology and theories of time. He is widely published and respected in his field.