Torrance is an interesting writer who has grappled well with the relationship between an eternal God and a time-bound universe, particularly in the light of the incarnation. But at times he is remarkably difficult to understand. Take for example this argument:

The movement of eternity into time in Jesus Christ has the effect of temporalizing space and spatializing time in an orderly continuum of successive patterns of change and coherent structures within which God may reflect and fulfil His own creative and redemptive intentionality…. It is therefore a teleological as well as an eschatological movement, in which the incarnate Word calls space and time, as it were, into contrapuntal relation to the eternal rationality of God, which because of its infinite differentiality does not override but maintains and fulfils the freedom of the created order.

– Thomas F. Torrance, Space Time and Incarnation (London: Oxford University Press, 1969), 72-73.