Ronald Wallace (1911–2006) was a theologian and Professor of Biblical Theology at Columbia Theological Seminary. He was also a member of the Torrance family of theologians. 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 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 in Divinity followed; he was a pupil of H.R. Mackintosh and William Manson. While Minister of St Kentigern's in Lanark he gained his PhD on Calvin's Doctrine of the Word and Sacraments. Family and theological connections In July 1937 he married Mary Moulin Torrance, the sister of Thomas F. 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 also an academic theologian. Sources Torrance, I.R. (1 March 2006) "Obituary: Professor Ronald Wallace" The Scotsman 1911 births 20th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland Scottish scholars and academics Scottish Christian theologians Alumni of the University of Edinburgh 2006 deaths Columbia Theological Seminary faculty People educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh People from Brora