Andrew B. Torrance is a senior lecturer in theology at the University of St Andrews. Prior to becoming a lecturer, he held a research fellowship at the University of St Andrews for which he ran the programme, Scientists in Congregations Scotland. He received his PhD from the University of Otago, where he wrote a dissertation on Søren Kierkegaard's and Karl Barth's theology of conversion.

• Introduction


• I: The Concept of Accountability


• 1: A Definition of Accountability


• 2: Analysing Accountability


• 3: The Virtue of Accountability


• 4: Slavery--Accountability or Exploitation?


• II: A Theology of Accountability


• 5: The Story of Creation and the Covenant of Accountability


• 6: The Fall from Accountability to God


• 7: The Fear of the Lord


• 8: Baptism into Accountability in Christ


• 9: The Story that Turned Paul's Life Around


• Conclusion


• Bibliography


• Index

This book explores what it means to be accountable to God. Engaging with major theologians alongside contemporary analytic philosophy, systematic theology, and psychology, it proposes a positive, constructive, and theologically apt way to think about accountability that distinguishes it from the concept of responsibility.