Gaelic and English preacher passes away at age of eighty-two.
Much loved preacher and teacher Donald MacLeod died this past May in his Morningside home after six decades at the forefront of Scottish theology.
Born on the Isle of Lewis in 1940, he attended Glasgow University and then went on to Free Church College, Edinburgh. He was made a minister at the age of just 22, overseeing Kilmallie Free Church up in the Scottish Highlands. He was there for less than a decade before he moved away down south to Glasgow, giving bilingual sermons in both Gaelic and English. ater he would be asked to take on the role of Professor of Systematic Theology at the now Edinburgh Theological College. After many years he eventually became the head of the college from 1999 to 2011. During this lengthy career he taught dozens of future ministers, so many that his son, writing in 2011, could only identify three who hadn’t sat under him.
In terms of his teaching, he focuses largely on recovering the Scottish Reformed tradition in the tradition of John Knox. He was determined to give people the knowledge of the love of God hrough the crucified Christ. His many books span many decades, from ‘Behold Your God’ published in 1970, looking at the Biblical attributes of God, to The Person of Christ from 1998 and one of his final works before his death, Faith Undaunted from 2022, which focuses on how to be a Christian in a relativistic, post-truth era.
His funeral took place at the Free Church, Stornoway and he was buried in Habost Cemetry, Ness, his home town.
Born on the Isle of Lewis in 1940, he attended Glasgow University and then went on to Free Church College, Edinburgh. He was made a minister at the age of just 22, overseeing Kilmallie Free Church up in the Scottish Highlands. He was there for less than a decade before he moved away down south to Glasgow, giving bilingual sermons in both Gaelic and English. ater he would be asked to take on the role of Professor of Systematic Theology at the now Edinburgh Theological College. After many years he eventually became the head of the college from 1999 to 2011. During this lengthy career he taught dozens of future ministers, so many that his son, writing in 2011, could only identify three who hadn’t sat under him.
In terms of his teaching, he focuses largely on recovering the Scottish Reformed tradition in the tradition of John Knox. He was determined to give people the knowledge of the love of God hrough the crucified Christ. His many books span many decades, from ‘Behold Your God’ published in 1970, looking at the Biblical attributes of God, to The Person of Christ from 1998 and one of his final works before his death, Faith Undaunted from 2022, which focuses on how to be a Christian in a relativistic, post-truth era.
His funeral took place at the Free Church, Stornoway and he was buried in Habost Cemetry, Ness, his home town.
