F.F. BRUCE: A LIFE
The definitive biography of a New Testament scholar
By Tim Grass . Paternoster. 283 pages. £14.99
ISBN 978 1 842 277 379
This biography is important for those who want to understand the development of evangelicalism in Britain since the second world war.
F.F. Bruce was a very significant figure in that development. When, in 1947, he became senior lecturer and then professor in Sheffield University’s newly formed Department of Biblical History and Literature, he was one of very few evangelical Christians involved in biblical or theological academia. Later he moved to Manchester University to be, for 20 years, Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis.
