Robert Leighton: The Bishop

1967 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-209
Author(s):  
R. Stuart Louden
Keyword(s):  
Parish Minister ◽  
The Church ◽  
Joint Report ◽  
Church Government

In 1611, Robert Leighton was born into the era of the Church of Scotland's 1610 Accommodation between the Presbyterian and Episcopalian systems of church government. The Episcopalian Bishop of Dunblane and Archbishop of Glasgow between the ages of fifty and sixty, was the same man as had been the Presbyterian Parish Minister at Newbattle between the ages of thirty and forty. Leighton's especial significance is that he represents in his own person the very kind of accommodation which the signatories of the Joint Report on Anglican-Presbyterian Relations (1957) were aiming at, and which is an ecumenical possibility which will obviously continue to be explored.

scholarly journals Finansiële aspekte van gemeentes van die Gereformeerde kerke in Suid-Afrika: ’n empiriese ondersoek

1991 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
D. S. Lubbe ◽  
J. Lubbe
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Financial Planning ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Church Finances ◽  
Planning And Management ◽  
The Church ◽  
Church Government

As a result of the presbyterial system of church government of the Reformed Church in South Africa (Gereformeerde Kerke in Suid-Afrika), very little information on the financial matters of the church is available. Hardly any research has been undertaken on the financial matters of congregations of the said church. The aim with this research was firstly to obtain the opinions of clergymen and cashiers within the ranks of the Reformed Church on certain aspects of the financial matters of their congregations and the church as a whole. Secondly certain data from which guidelines on the financial matters of congregations can be drawn, were collected and processed. From the research it became clear that there is a great need for financial guidelines in respect of financial planning and management in congregations and that church finances offers a vast field of study for future research.

scholarly journals John Glas and the Development of Religious Pluralism in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 527-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALASDAIR RAFFE
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Scottish Enlightenment ◽  
Church Of Scotland ◽  
Church Courts ◽  
The Church ◽  
Church Government

This article discusses John Glas, a minister deposed by the Church of Scotland in 1728, in order to examine the growth of religious pluralism in Scotland. The article begins by considering why Glas abandoned Presbyterian principles of Church government, adopting Congregationalist views instead. Glas's case helped to change the Scottish church courts’ conception of deposed ministers, reflecting a reappraisal of Nonconformity. Moreover, Glas's experiences allow us to distinguish between church parties formed to conduct business, and those representing theological attitudes. Finally, Glas's case calls into question the broadest definitions of the ‘Scottish Enlightenment’, drawing attention to the emergence of pluralism.

Sion College and the London Provincial Assembly, 1647–1660

1986 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-90
Author(s):  
Philip J. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Rigid Model ◽  
Judicial Authority ◽  
The Church ◽  
Westminster Assembly ◽  
Church Government

The events which together finally resulted in a restructuring of the Church of England along Presbyterian lines had been lengthy, complex and exceedingly frustrating for all concerned. Since the earliest days of the Long Parliament, both pulpit and press had been brimming not only with invective against Laudian Episcopacy, but also with a plethora of ideas about church government. After 1643, having accepted the conditions of the Solemn League and Covenant, the Westminster Assembly laboured fitfully to fulfil its responsibility of producing a new polity for parliament's approval. The assembly conducted its work in the midst of independent Dissenting Brethren who argued for a congregational form of gathered churches in the context of toleration, Scottish commissioners who would not be satisfied with anything less than their own rigid model of Presbyterianism, and a parliament that was generally desirous of a Presbyterian settlement but committed to an Erastian structure that would make its own body the highest judicial authority in the Church.

scholarly journals Die geestelike aard van die kerklike tug soos in gereformeerde kerkordes

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Piet Strauss
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Church Discipline ◽  
Spiritual Discipline ◽  
Physical Force ◽  
Technical Application ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
The Church ◽  
Church Government

The spiritual character of church disciplineThis article focuses on the meaning of the words “the spiritual character of church discipline” used in the Church Order of Dordrecht in 1619 and since then in the church orders of churches with an affinity for the Church Order of Dordt.The conclusion is that the aim, way of implementation and climate of church discipline combined with other considerations in reformed church government all help to clarify the spiritual character of church discipline. At the basis of it the spiritual character of this kind of discipline is determined by the spiritual discipline of the Word and Spirit of God. In this regard inner convictions and not physical force or a technical application of church order measures must determine the acts of church discipline. Steps which should also be spiritual in nature.Church discipline should be in obedience to the Head of the church, Jesus Christ. He governs the church through His Word.

The Rubble of Episcopacy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Como
Keyword(s):  
External Pressure ◽  
Congregational Church ◽  
The Church ◽  
Church Government

This chapter explores the politics of the Long Parliament in 1641, focusing on how efforts in parliament to remodel the church interacted with external pressure campaigns and informal propaganda flowing from London presses. The chapter examines the emergence of fissures within the godly front that was challenging the existing church order. Particular attention is devoted to the rise of “independency” as a label used by both friends and enemies to describe varying shades of congregational church government. The chapter also outlines the proactive steps taken by puritan reformists to bury these growing differences. It suggests that those steps paradoxically provided leverage to more militant “independent” ideologues, who were emboldened and abetted by the attack on episcopacy waged by leading MPs at Westminster, and who began to adopt and promote ever more extreme attacks on the existing order.

scholarly journals Op soek na ’n duidelike reformatoriese paradigma vir kerklike gesag

1992 ◽  
Vol 48 (3/4) ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Spoelstra
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
The Real ◽  
Ecclesiastical Authority ◽  
Church Polity ◽  
The Church ◽  
Church Government

In search of a clear reformed paradigm on ecclesiastical authority This article represents an effort to investigate the claim from different viewpoints that Jesus Christ is the real and sole authority in church polity. It is maintained in this article that different systems of church government replace in reality the ius divinum with a ius humanum. The church can only be governed by the authority of Jesus Christ in a ministry where the grounds for ecclesiastical decisions and directions are clearly pointed out from the Scriptures.

scholarly journals Regspraak volgens artikel 31 van die kerkorde van die GKSA ’n skriftuurlike beoordeling

1992 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Kruger
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Insufficient Attention ◽  
Reformed Churches ◽  
Church Law ◽  
The Church ◽  
Church Government

Due to a number of reasons judicature in the Reformed Churches of South Africa (GKSA) has developed into a system which has been formed not so much by scriptural norms as by other factors. Among these factors where the influence of democracy, inadequate distinction between church government and church judicature, a dichotomy between the acceptance of norms for church judicature and so-called secular judicature, insufficient attention to biblical norms and the development of a tradition among scholars of church law. Experience in plenary meetings of the church has indicated that church judicature should be put on a sounder scriptural foundation.

scholarly journals PRESBYTERIANISM, SECULARIZATION, AND SCOTTISH POLITICS AFTER THE REVOLUTION OF 1688–1690

2010 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALASDAIR RAFFE
Keyword(s):  
General Assembly ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Binding Force ◽  
Legal Situation ◽  
Religious Controversy ◽  
Ecclesiastical Administration ◽  
The Church ◽  
Scottish Politics ◽  
Church Government ◽  
The Revolution

ABSTRACTThis article assesses the significance of Presbyterian ideas of church government in Scottish politics after the revolution of 1688–90. While recent historians have revised our understanding of Scottish politics in this period, they have mostly overlooked debates concerning religious authority. The article focuses on what contemporaries called the ‘intrinsic right’ of the church: its claim to independent authority in spiritual matters and ecclesiastical administration. The religious settlement of 1690 gave control of the kirk to clergy who endorsed divine right Presbyterianism, believed in the binding force of the National Covenant (1638) and the Solemn League and Covenant (1643), and sought to uphold the intrinsic right. An ambiguous legal situation, the criticisms of episcopalian clergy and politicians, and the crown's religious policies helped to make the Presbyterians' ecclesiological claims a source of instability in Scottish politics. Meetings of the general assembly and, after 1707, the appointment of national fast and thanksgiving days were particularly likely to spark controversy. More broadly, the article questions two narratives of secularization assumed by many previous scholars. It argues that Scottish politics was not differentiated from religious controversy in this period, and that historians have exaggerated the pace of liberalization in Scottish Presbyterian thought.

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