For For readers interested in Bruce's life, the Brethren and twentieth-century British evangelical scholarship.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
3 of 5worth your time
For the researcher
3 of 5worth your time
Difficulty
2 of 5moderate
His memoir (1980): Brethren childhood, classical training and a career that shaped evangelical biblical scholarship.
How it proceeds
Philosophic0 of 5
Scriptural2 of 5
Experiential2 of 5
Sociological3 of 5
Historical4 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
Bruce's memoir, published by Pickering & Inglis in 1980 with the subtitle Remembrance of Things Past, and in a revised edition by Marshall Pickering in 1993. It recalls his upbringing in Elgin as the son of a Brethren evangelist, his study of classics at Aberdeen, Cambridge and Vienna, his teaching at Edinburgh, Leeds, Sheffield and Manchester, and the people and causes of his working life.
