Still Reading Torrance

Someone defined a good book as one that should be sucked slowly, like a lozenge. Now 'lozenge', ever since I was a wee boy and had to suck cough lozenges on account of chronic bronchitis, brought on it seems by secondary smoking, has always seemed to me to be a grown up word for a sweetie, that while tasting a bit different, would definitely do you good. 

Tom Torrance's The Christian Doctrine of God is a lozenge of a book. I am reading it slowly because it's a grown up book that is doing me good. Here's one of my latest lozenge paragraphs - to be taken slowly and allowed to do good.

...our belief in the Deity of Christ rest,...upon the whole manifestation of 'the Christ event' as soteriologically proclaimed and interpreted in the gospels and epistles. We rely upon the whole coherent evangelical structure of historical divine revelation given in the New Testament scriptures. It is when we indwell it, meditate upon it, tune into it, penetrate inside it and absorb it in ourselves, and find the very foundations of our life and thought changing under the creative and saving impact of Christ, and are saved by Christ and personally reconciled to God in Christ that we believe in him as Lord and God. This does not come about, however, without renouncing ourselves in a repentant rethinking of all that we are and claim to know, that is, without our being crucified with Christ in heart and mind and raised to new life in him. (page 53)