Education
Highlanders’ Academy, Greenock. Glasgow University and Free Church College Master of Arts, Bachelor of Divinity, and D.D. Doctor of Divinity.
Highlanders’ Academy, Greenock. Glasgow University and Free Church College Master of Arts, Bachelor of Divinity, and D.D. Doctor of Divinity.
Denney was appointed Professor of Systematic Theology at his old alma mater, Free Church College Glasgow, in 1897, and spent the rest of his life teaching there. In 1900 he transferred to Professor Bruce's old Chair of New Testament Language and Literature, which he held until his death in 1917. In 1915 he was appointed principal of the college, the first former student of the institution to receive that honour. Denney became a close friend of the one-time Free Church minister and journalist Sir William Robertson Nicoll, to whose publications he contributed liberally dozens of articles. His wife died in 1907 and Denney felt the loss deeply, from which he never recovered, writing only two major works before his death in the summer of 1917 at the comparatively early age of 61.
