Thomas Schreiner Reflects on the Scholarship of Leon Morris

Thomas Schreiner joins in the centenary celebration of the life and work of Leon Morris with a guest post on the Ridley Blog about Morris’ influence upon him.

Leon Morris influenced me with his commentaries. His careful work in 1 Corinthians and the Thessalonian letters helped shaped my understanding of those Pauline letters. But his commentary on Revelation played a unique role in turning me in a new direction. If memory serves me correctly, this was the first scholarly commentary I read on the book of Revelation. Up to that point, the only perspective I knew on Revelation was the dispensational reading of the book. Upon reading Morris my eyes were opened to a different way of reading the book. Here was a reverent work, a serious work that interpreted the book in terms of the apocalyptic genre which informed the book. And I can’t fail to mention his delightful little book Apocalyptic, which proved to be so helpful in understanding the genre of Revelation.