I stopped the car and had to get out to look. I studied under Dr. Blevins at SBTS (a course on Revelation, of course, and his course on Rudolf Bultmann) and did not know he had passed away.

To my surprise, I had stumbled upon a corner where lay many of the great professors under whom I studied at SBTS in the late 1970s: Dale Moody, J.J. Owens (who taught my first Hebrew class), Harold Songer (my major professor in the doctoral program), Badgett Dillard (an administrator at SBTS who had been a great source of support and counsel during a personal crisis, and who I had lost touch with and did not know that he, too, had passed on), and Roy Lee Honeycutt.

I was deeply moved to find this “Seminary Corner” at Cave Hill. I was most saddened, I think, to learn of the death of Dr. Blevins. His bubbly personality, deeply intense spirituality, and brilliant scholarship were great influences on me. I had, and have, the utmost respect for Dr. Blevins. I am pleased to see that he survived (for a time, at least, until his retirement) the Mohler administration at the seminary he loved, since of course he was one of those “liberals” that the witch-hunters apparently overlooked.

Dr. Honeycutt’s tombstone bears a quotation from his final commencement address at SBTS. I can’t remember it exactly, but it is along the lines of “nothing else matters but to live in Christ …” and it is very moving. I remember Dr. Honeycutt as a dedicated man who took the reins of the seminary during a turbulent time and was a steadying hand at the wheel.

David Baker