F.F. Bruce

5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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F.F. Bruce was a biblical scholar who traversed the secular academy with devotion to the truth of the gospel. On this episode of 5 Minutes in Church History, Dr. Stephen Nichols introduces a theologian who was marked by his love of God's Word.

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0:00.0	F.F. Bruce was a 20th century biblical scholar and in case you're wondering what those initials
0:06.6	stand for, they stand for Frederick V. Bruce.
0:11.4	He was born in 1910 and he died in 1990.
0:15.0	He was born in Scotland.
0:16.2	His father was a minister in the Plymouth Brethren Church.
0:19.5	Bruce had an outstanding academic career as a student and as a professor.
0:24.4	He studied at the University of Aberdeen at Cambridge.
0:27.1	He pursued further studies in languages and philology at the University of Manchester
0:31.7	and in Vienna.
0:33.2	He taught it in Edinburgh at the University of Leeds at the University of Sheffield and
0:37.4	he ended his career at the Victoria University of Manchester.
0:42.0	He was widely published with books of substantial scholarship.
0:46.7	One of his better known books was Paul, Apostle of the Hearts at Free.
0:52.1	He was aimed at a popular audience and it even weighs in at 1300 and 91 footnotes.
1:01.4	With every book he wrote, and he commented on this in his autobiography, he always felt
1:07.6	that his father was watching over his shoulder as he wrote, so that Bruce would be faithful
1:15.1	to the biblical text.
1:17.0	He inherited from his father a love from scripture and Bruce came to his teaching and to his
1:23.5	writing from that context.
1:26.3	He moved in what would be very liberal contexts and moved among very liberal scholars, yet
1:33.5	he remained conservative, a biblical and theological conservative.
1:38.9	He had a high commitment to the historical reliability and truthfulness of scripture.
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