Howard Marshall Remembers Leon Morris

The Leon Morris Centenary continues over at the Ridley Blog with a short post by I. Howard Marshall on In gratitude for Leon Morris. Great piece, do check it out!

Quite simply he was one of the few really competent evangelical scholars who was able to take on the opposition and be recognised as a worthy defender by those who did not share his conclusions. I say ‘One of the few’: the result was that when issues cropped up on which no evangelicals were specialists, it fell to Leon to master the ‘God is dead’ arguments and produce a suitable response to them (The Abolition of Religion). He wrote full-scale commentaries and a steady stream of articles both academic and ‘popular’. In all this he was an inspiration to younger scholars, and it was a delight to get to know him – and join him in the Easter dance!