Draft:Laurance Henry Marshall
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Laurance Henry Marshall was born in Louth, Lincolnshire, England, on March 8, 1882. Marshall graduated with bachelor degrees in arts and divinity at London University and studied theology at Rawdon College (now Northern Baptist College) from 1905-1909. From 1909 to 1911, he studied in Germany, doing post-graduate work under Adolf von Harnack and Gustav Adolf Deissmann in Berlin, and Adolf Jülicher and Wilhelm Heitmüller in Marburg.
In 1911, Marshall became pastor of Princes Gate in Liverpool. In 1914, while on a summer vacation in Germany, he was arrested as a suspected spy at the outbreak of war and was imprisoned until he was released to return to England at the close of the year. He married Clare Illingworth in 1916 and their only child, Ruth Jean was born in 1921. In 1920, Laurance Marshall left Princes Gate to serve as a pastor at Queen's Road in Coventry.
Marshall relocated to Toronto, Canada in 1925 to take his first academic post as the Chair of Practical Theology in McMaster University, Toronto, in which capacity he served until 1930. He then returned to England in 1930 to serve as pastor for Victoria Road Church in Leicester. In 1936, he returned to Rawdon College and academia as Professor of New Testament Interpretation and Pastoral Theology. In 1946, his first book, The Challenge of New Testament Ethics, a comprehensive examination of the ethical teachings of Jesus Christ and the Apostle Paul within the New Testament, was published by Macmillan. In 1948, he replaced Dr. A.C. Underwood as Principal of Radwon College. Around the same time, Marshall received his Ph.D. from London University. Marshall died on January 22, 1953. Marshall's second work, Rivals of the Christian Faith, was published posthumously in 1954 by the Carey Kingsgate Press, and provided a Christian analysis of, and response, to the dominant ideologies that challenged Christianity in the post World War 2 era, including Greek Rationalism, Roman Stoicism, Scientific Humanism, and Russian Communism.
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[edit]L.H. Marshall, The Challenge of New Testament Ethics (Macmillian 1946).
Henry Bonser, A Memoir of the Author, as published in L.H. Marshall, Rivals of the Christian Faith (Carey Kingsgate 1954).