Baptist minister and influential scholar dies
Emeritus Professor Max Turner passed away on Saturday 15 August and a Service of Thanksgiving for his life and ministry was held on 3 September at St Andrew’s Church, Chorleywood.
Martin Maximillian Barnaby Turner, known simply as Max Turner, was born in Stirling, Scotland, moved around the UK as a child, and lived in Cyprus for several years before moving back to the UK. He attended the University of Cambridge to study medicine. However, he had a dramatic conversion experience during a university mission led by the evangelist David Watson. Subsequently, he changed his studies to theology, at which he excelled. This, in turn, led him to study for a PhD degree on the topic of Spirit reception texts in Luke-Acts, also at the University of Cambridge. He was awarded his degree in 1980.