{"id":1236,"date":"2013-03-18T15:08:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T19:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2013-03-18T15:10:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T19:10:38","slug":"another-homegoing-of-a-great-christian-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/another-homegoing-of-a-great-christian-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Homegoing of a Great Christian Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Roy<\/a>Many blogs started to go up over the weekend when word was received that Dr. Roy Zuck went home to be with the Lord late Saturday.\u00a0 He was Academic Dean at Dallas Theological Seminary for\u00a0most\u00a0of the time I was\u00a0a student at DTS.\u00a0 I thought it was appropriate for me also to share my memories of a man of such character as Dr. Zuck.\u00a0 He is greatly loved and respected, especially by\u00a0those in the DTS family, but also by many evangelicals outside the seminary family who appreciated his contribution to teaching, theology, and publishing.<\/p>\n

I was a New Testament major in my STM at Dallas.\u00a0 Having obtained an M.Div. at Liberty Baptist Seminary, I did not have as many opportunities to have contact with Dr. Zuck as did the DTS Th.M. students.\u00a0 In fact, I never had a formal\u00a0for credit class with him (which is disappointing).\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

But I remember that they required us to take a Saturday morning non-credit seminar (if I remember correctly) which Dr. Zuck taught.\u00a0 The subject was on how to be a good teacher.\u00a0 What an avalanche of teaching tips I learned in just a short time!\u00a0 The thing I remember most from that morning was his use of the overhead projector (if you can remember such things).\u00a0 I specifically remember the overlays of transparencies giving a physical rendering of the woman in the Song of Songs–things like her nose was as the Tower of Lebanon!\u00a0 He brought humor to bear along with what at the time was appropriate use of the technology of the day.\u00a0 I was teaching at a church in Arlington, Texas at the time.\u00a0 I used some of the things Dr. Zuck taught me.\u00a0 They thought I was a great teacher!\u00a0 Dr. Zuck and others who were my teachers deserve the credit.\u00a0 Through him I became more aware of creativity in the function of teaching.<\/p>\n

I had some dealings with Dr. Zuck when I published an article in Bibliotheca Sacra<\/em>, the seminary journal which he edited for decades.\u00a0 I am sure that Dr. Zuck had a typewriter and some manuscripts on a table next to Noah on the Ark–and stacks of BibSac journals!\u00a0 He helped work through knotty problems in\u00a0my article that could have been written better.\u00a0 I learned to appreciate his editing skills directly through this conversation with him.\u00a0 Of course, we all could see the fantastic editing job he did on the Bible Knowledge Commentary<\/em>, one of the most used commentaries in our day.\u00a0 I sometimes tease students by referring to BKC as the “inspired commentary.”\u00a0 Of course, it is not inspired like the Bible is inspired.\u00a0 But Dr. Zuck loved accuracy and detail.\u00a0 He loved the Bible with all his heart.\u00a0 He loved God and Jesus with all his heart.\u00a0 He was a man of God.<\/p>\n

In December 2009 at the Pre-Trib Study Group I set up a dinner with Dr. Zuck.\u00a0 I told him I would take him out to dinner if he would help me with some publishing ideas I was thinking through.\u00a0 He kindly agreed.\u00a0 We met at Dallas Seminary and he drove me over to one of his favorite restaurants nearby.\u00a0 I asked him for advice on producing publications for the Council on Dispensational Hermeneutics which we had started at Baptist Bible Seminary in 2008.\u00a0 Dr. Zuck was gracious and even promised to help if the Lord would allow projects to emerge for him to work on.\u00a0 Alas, the Lord never allowed this to develop.\u00a0One of the things that became so obvious to me during our dinner was the great love he had for his wife Dottie, who had gone on to be with the Lord a little over a year earlier.\u00a0 I doubt any couple could match the love they had for each other.<\/p>\n

Dr. Zuck was at the Pre-Trib Study Group last December (2012) in Dallas.\u00a0 I regret that I did not get a chance to talk to him personally while I was there.\u00a0 He was a\u00a0fine Christian\u00a0man.\u00a0 While today we miss his presence among us, Dr. Zuck will be remembered for generations to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many blogs started to go up over the weekend when word was received that Dr. Roy Zuck went home to be with the Lord late Saturday.\u00a0 He was Academic Dean at Dallas Theological Seminary for\u00a0most\u00a0of the time I was\u00a0a student at DTS.\u00a0 I thought it was appropriate for me also to share my memories of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,16,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}