Elected as Secretary of the Faculty at UTS, Terrien shared in the lively intellectual atmosphere of the post-war period that put that institution at the forefront of liberal and neo-orthodox Protestantism.
Terrien was Associate Editor for Old Testament Introduction and Exegesis for The Interpreter's Bible, a new biblical commentary reflecting the state of the biblical and theological scholarship of the time that sold nearly three million copies by 1985 [REF].