Leon Morris (1914-2006)
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New Testament scholar Leon Morris died on Monday afternoon in Melbourne after hip surgery, aged 92. His funeral will be at Holy Trinity Doncaster, Melbourne, on July 31 at 10.30 am.The following is from his Wikipedia entry:
"Leon Morris (1914—2006) was a New Testament scholar. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in England on the subject which became his first major book, The Apostolic Preaching of the Cross. He served as Warden of Tyndale House, Cambridge (1960-64); Principal (university) of Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia (where they have named a library in his honour); and Visiting Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
"He has published several theological works and commentaries on the Bible, notable among which are The Apostolic Preaching of the Cross, The Atonement: Its Meaning and Significance, New Testament Theology, and The Gospel According to John (part of the New International Commentary on the New Testament series)."
Thank you, God, for your faithful servant and for the way in which he has helped the church to understand your Word and to glory in the cross of Jesus Christ.
posted by JT at Tuesday, July 25, 2006
18 Comments:
Thank you, Justin, for passing this along. I, too, have greatly been blessed by the scholarship of Morris. He no doubt will have a lasting legacy for generations to come.
What a legacay of Christian scholarship he has left behind. RIP.
It was Morris who first showed me what sound exegetical labors look like. I owe so much to Apostolic Preaching of the Cross.
I have enjoyed a number of Morris' writings.
About R.I.P...I don't think I've ever seen believers use RIP in a serious way, as I am seeing it here, and I therefore thought it wasn't something that believers used. Anybody want to clue me in?
I echo Tim's response, thank you for passing this along Justin. Dr. Morris' writings have been a rich source of wisdom for many. God bless his family at this time.
I just said the other day that I didn't know if Dr. Morris was still alive.
What a gift to the church he has been in both his teaching/writing and modeling of Christian scholarship.
May the Lord raise up an army of Morrises.
Another one finishes the race and makes it home!
What a blessing his commentary on the Gospel of John has been to me. I thank God for Dr. Morris.
His writtings and candor will be missed. Thank you for letting us know of return to His Father.
RIP does not stand for the English, "Rest in Peace." It is the Latin, "requiescat in pace," translated "may he or she rest in peace."
This is too bad. Leon Morris was a great defender of the faith. I have profited greatly from his works. May his works continue to bless God's church.
The Anglican Media Melbourne post which first announced this had "Vale Leon Morris".
I also note that after the funeral detail it has "Clergy are welcome to robe, cassock, surplice, scarf and hood." ;)
Anyway, I aim to attend the funeral.
I met Dr. Morris ages ago when he was visiting the U.S. It gave me the opportunity to tell him how much his commentary on John had meant to me, along with John Murray's on Romans in the NICNT series.
He got a little teary-eyed and thanked me profusely. I've always wondered if he was perhaps a little discouraged at the time and needed that word. He was a very gracious and humble man!
"Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints" (Ps 116:15). Thank God for Leon Morris!
Mook
Before I left Singapore and went to university in the US, I fortified myself with Leon Morris' work on the Atonement and especially the differences between expiation and propitiation.
I attended a Southern Baptist College and the Old Testament Prof. there was comparing the work of Christ on the Cross with some concepts in Hinanayan Buddhism! So thank God for His servant Leon Morris. He is now glorying in the Light no longer unapproachable!
When I was in seminary, I took a class on the Johannine Epistles (a fancy way to say 1, 2, 3 John of the Bible). Dr. Beale, my professor, noted in a study on 1 John 2:1 that Dr. Leon Morris had written a monumental work entitled, The Apostolic Preaching of the Cross. In it, Professor Morris had studied the word hilasterion (‘propitiation’) to argue that it should not be translated as ‘expiation’ as the RSV did in its attempt to avoid any ‘aversion of wrath’ imagery of the atonement. Leon Morris’ doctoral dissertation (which would result in this book) was so lengthy that after his dissertation, Cambridge put a page limit on future dissertations!
His work is still very important today, especially as issues of justification and substitutionary atonement come under fire today. Thank you Dr. Morris for giving us the Bible’s view on the atonement!
Thanks Justin. I'm worried that with his passing, and what will soon likely be the passing of other Anglican evangelicals like John Stott and J.I. Packer, that we aren't going to have any great Anglican evangelical leaders left.
I don't see a link on your blog to backlink this notice. So I hope you don't mind if I publish it on my blog.
Thanks,
Scott
http://anglicanevangelical.blogspot.com/
Reverend Tony Henricks, Launceston Tasmania..I had the privilege for three years of sitting at the feet of this Godly and saintly and humble man's lectures at Ridley College, Melbourne where I was a student from 1962 - 1966.
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