David W. Torrance

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{{Infobox Christian leader

| type = Minister

| name = David W. Torrance

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| title = Church of Scotland minister

| church = Church of Scotland

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1924|6|22|df=y}}

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| religion = Presbyterian

| parents = Thomas Torrance
Annie Elizabeth Sharpe

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David Wishart Torrance (born 22 June 1924) is a retired Church of Scotland minister and part of the well-known Torrance family of theologians and Christian ministers. He is the youngest of six children to Rev Thomas Torrance (1871–1959) and Annie Elizabeth Torrance (1883–1980), both missionaries to Chengdu, Sichuan of West China.

Like his two brothers, Thomas F. Torrance and James B. Torrance, David became a church minister in the Church of Scotland. He was ordained on 14 November 1955.{{Cite book |title=Church of Scotland Yearbook 2023-24 |publisher=Saint Andrew Press |year=2023 |location=Edinburgh |pages=287 |language=English |chapter=Section 6: List I: Ministers Ordained for Sixty Years or More}} He served in three parishes across Scotland; Livingston, Summerhill Church in Aberdeen, and Earlston in the Scottish Borders.

Unlike his two brothers, he did not go onto academic work. David continued in church ministry until his retirement from Earlston Parish Church in 1991.{{cite web |url=http://livebyfaith.org.uk/dwt_cv.html |title=Autobiography |last=Torrance |first=David W |publisher=Living by Faith |access-date=28 March 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120110130554/http://www.livebyfaith.org.uk/dwt_cv.html |archive-date=10 January 2012 }}{{cite book|last=Torrance |first=David W.| title = The Reluctant Minister: Memoirs by David W. Torrance| publisher= Wipf and Stock| location = Eugene, OR| date= 2015| isbn= 978-1498232906}}

He published a series of memoirs titled 'The Reluctant Minister' in 2015.{{Cite web |title=THE RELUCTANT MINISTER |url=https://handselpress.org.uk/product/the-reluctant-minister/ |access-date=2024-07-02 |website=Handsel Press |language=en-GB}}