Faith arises in us under the creative impact of the self-witness and self-interpretation of God in his Word, and in response to the claims of his divine reality upon us which we cannot reasonably or in good conscience resist. It takes the form of a listening obedience to the address and call of God’s Word and the specific beliefs that are called forth from us like this entail at their heart a conceptual or epistemic consent to divine truth and become interiorly locked into it. (T. F. Torrance, The Trinitarian Faith, p. 21)
We must learn from God himself what we are to think of him, for ‘God cannot be apprehended except through himself.’ (T. F. Torrance, The Trinitarian Faith, p. 21)
On the one hand, then, faith is characterised by a certainty of conviction which derives its force from the truth of God himself thrust upon it, but on the other hand, faith is characterised by an open, ever-expanding semantic focus which answers to the unfathomable mystery and inexhaustible nature of God. (T. F. Torrance, The Trinitarian Faith, p. 22)