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James Denney
James Denney, D.D. (1856-1917) was a
Early life
Denney was born in
He was educated at the Highlanders' Academy,
Denney was an outstanding student at Free Church College, where he studied under Dr. George C.M. Douglas (Old Testament), Dr. T.M. Lindsay (Church History), Dr. James Candlish (Systematic Theology) and Dr
While still a student Denney published his first work, "Natural Law in the Spiritual World, by a Brother of the Natural Man". It was a trenchantly critical review of
Ministry
After university he turned to the Ministry. Denney was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Greenock on 16th May 1883 and was appointed Missioner to the Hill Street Mission of St. John's (Free Church), Glasgow. In 1886 he was called to be pastor of the East Free Church,
Some of his expository sermons preached at Broughty Ferry were published in two volumes of "The Expositor's Bible", edited by W. Robertson Nicoll, "The Epistles to the Thessalonians" in 1892 and "The Second Epistle to the Corinthians" in 1894. (Amusingly, some copies of the commentary on the First Epistle to the Corinthians in a later edition of "The Expositor's Bible" have Denney's name on the covers. The book was in fact written, as the title page makes clear, by Marcus Dods).
In 1893 Denney was asked to deliver a series of theological lectures at
Academic career
Denney was appointed Professor of Systematic Theology at his old alma mater, Free Church College Glasgow, in 1897, and spent the rest of his life teaching there. In 1900 he transferred to Professor Bruce's old Chair of New Testament Language and Literature, which he held until his death in 1917. In 1915 he was appointed
Theolological position
Denney's greatest contribution to theological literature is in his robust defence of the penal character of the
Writings
In addition to his academic oeuvre, he made dozens of contributions to journals and newspapers ranging from erudite theological journals to "The Morning Watch", a Sunday-school magazine edited by his friend J.P. Struthers.
Denney wrote other major works. As well as those already mentioned he contributed a commentary on the Greek Text of Romans to "The Expositor's Greek Testament" (edited by W. R. Nicoll). His "Jesus and the Gospel" (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1908) is a careful piece of theological writing demonstrating that there is no disparity between Jesus' own teaching about himself as recorded in the
ources
*James M. Gordon, "James Denney" (Milton Keynes, Paternoster, 2006)
*Stuart Mechie, "Trinity College, Glasgow" (Glasgow, Trinity College, 1956)
*James Moffatt (editor), "Letters of Principal James Denney to his Family and Friends" (London, Hodder and Stoughton, no date)
*William Robertson Nicoll (editor), "Letters of Principal James Denney to W. Robertson Nicoll" (London, Hodder and Stoughton, no date)
*T. H. Walker, "Principal James Denney, D.D." (London, Marshall Brothers, 1918)
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