Last night at 6:30 pm 8/26/11, C. Kingsley Barrett passed away. Born in 1917, Dr. Barrett died at the age of 94. C. Kingsley Barrett was a world renown new testament scholar teaching at Durham University for 37 years from 1945 to 1982. Not only was he a prolific author, but his legacy is passed down through his influential roll of students such as Ben Witherington, Morna Hooker, etc. A list of Barrett’s bibliography can be found here. Barrett of Durham was one of the great British new testament scholars of his day along with G. B. Caird of Oxford, C. F. D. Moule of Cambridge, and F. F. Bruce of Manchester to name a few. Barrett was and will remain part of a rich heritage of new testament scholarship at Durham in the ranks of J. B. Lightfoot, B. F. Wescott, A. Plummer, H. E. W. Turner, Barrett himself, C. E. B. Cranfield, James D. G. Dunn, and currently John Barclay and Francis Watson. He is being honored around the blogosphere and by scholars and students who have been encouraged in new testament studies by his work. He will long be remembered.
“In Christ Jesus, God is for us; and it is in Christ Jesus that we know him and trust him.” – C. K. Barrett[1]
