I. Howard Marshall | |
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| Born | Ian Howard Marshall (1934-01-12)12 January 1934 Scotland |
| Died | 12 December 2015(2015-12-12) (aged 81) |
| Title | Emeritus Professor of New Testament Exegesis and Honorary Research Professor at theUniversity of Aberdeen |
| Board member of | Chair of the Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical and Theological Research |
| Spouse | Maureen Wing Sheung Yeung |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Cambridge,Asbury University |
| Alma mater | University of Aberdeen (Ph.D.) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Biblical studies |
| Sub-discipline | New Testament studies |
| Institutions | University of Aberdeen |
| Notable works | New Testament Interpretation,Luke: Historian and Theologian &The Gospel of Luke (NIGTC) |
Ian Howard Marshall (12 January 1934 – 12 December 2015) was aScottishNew Testament scholar. He wasProfessor Emeritus of New TestamentExegesis at theUniversity of Aberdeen,Scotland. He was formerly the chair of the Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical and Theological Research; he was also president of the British New Testament Society and chair of the Fellowship of European Evangelical Theologians. Marshall identified as anEvangelicalMethodist. He was the author of numerous publications, including 2005Gold Medallion Book Award winnerNew Testament Theology.
Marshall was born on 12 January 1934. He was the son of Ernest Ewart Marshall and Ethel Marshall (née Curran). Marshall married Joyce Elizabeth Proudfoot in 1961 and had four children. She died in 1996.[1] In 2011, Marshall married Dr. Maureen Wing Sheung Yeung, former president of Evangel Seminary, Hong Kong.[2] Marshall died of pancreatic cancer in 2015.[3]
He wasProfessor Emeritus of New TestamentExegesis since 1964[3] and Honorary Research Professor at theUniversity of Aberdeen,Scotland. He was formerly the chair of the Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical and Theological Research. He was the author of at least 38 books and more than 120 essays and articles.[3]
Marshall's main interests in research were theGospel of Luke and theActs of the Apostles, thePastoral Epistles, and aspects ofNew Testament theology. He was particularly concerned with the work ofLuke as both historian and theologian. He contributed to a New Testament introduction for students and edited a revision and updating ofMoulton and Geden'sConcordance to theGreek Testament so that it can be used with the current major editions of the Greek New Testament as well as with older editions. In 2005 hisNew Testament Theology was theGold Medallion Book Award winner.[4]
Marshall was a critic of theChrist myth theory. In his bookI Believe in the Historical Jesus he wrote that the idea that Jesus never existed has "failed to make any impression on scholarly opinion."[5] His contribution to the UK television miniseriesJesus: The Evidence (Channel 4: 1984) was pitted against that of mythicistG. A. Wells, promptingHenry Chadwick, Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University, to comment that the programmes "juxtaposed perfectly sensible scholarly opinions with opinions so outré and hard to defend on rational grounds that disservice was done to the sensible people by the company they were portrayed as keeping."[6]
Marshall had anArminian theology. WithArminius, he believed thatunlimited atonement is consistent withpenal substitution.[7] InKept by the Power of God (1969),[8] Marshall mentioned the possibility ofapostasy. He preferred the view ofconditional security for having fewer exegetical difficulties, a point that was added eventually in an epilogue ofKept by the Power of God (1995).[9][10]
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