A Biography of Leon Morris

If you don’t know who Leon Morris is, then you know nothing about twentieth century evangelical biblical scholarship. Morris was a great commentator and biblical scholar who wrote several notable volumes on the atonement and New Testament, which are still worth consulting. He was principal of Ridley College for many years, and we name almost everything after him at Ridley: library, lecturerships, and maybe even a water fountain. Morris left an important legacy which, I like to think, is carried on at Ridley College today.

Any way, Leon Morris’ story is an interesting one, which is why I recommend the biography of his life by Neil Bach, who narrates Morris’ work and its significance for not only Australia, but for the wider church.

The blurb reads:

Leon Morris’s story needs to be told. In this unique and long-awaited work Neil Bach shows Leon Morris as a prodigious and original thinker from the wrong side of the world who restored the credibility of evangelical scholarship and the centrality of the cross. Many of us have been nurtured by his enormously helpful books on the cross, but few know about the obstacles that had to be overcome. The author gives us a life of Leon Morris which is true to the man, unflinching in its evaluation of his work and inspiring in its conclusions. The book claims what evangelicals have widely acknowledged: Leon Morris was, and remains, Australia’s most influential international scholar and pastor.

I’ll be recommending this to my doctoral students for our annual get together (I get them to read several biographies by/about G.E. Ladd, F.F. Bruce, Thomas Oden, Adolf Schlatter, Elizabeth Achtemeier, and now I can add Leon Morris too).

Only $13.84, buy one or get it for your college library, available at Amazon.com.