Macfarlane, Rev. Alwyn James Cecil, (born 14 June 1922), Parish Minister of Newlands (South), Church of Scotland, 1968–85; Extra Chaplain to the Queen in Scotland, since 1992 (Chaplain, 1977–92)

Of those ministers within the pale of pre-Disruption evangelicalism who remained in the Established Church of Scotland following the cataclysmic events of 18 May 1843, none is more paradigmatic than Revd William Muir. Deeply committed to evangelical preaching, rich parish ministry, philanthropic and evangelistic activism, and the idea of a National Kirk, Muir – along with Norman Macleod and others – played a critical role in piloting the ecclesiastical ship through the rough waters of the mid-to-late 1840s and into the era of recovery in which other establishment evangelicals began to exert influence.

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Jeffrey Stephen, Defending the Revolution: The Church of Scotland 1689–1716, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2013, 348 pp. hb, £70, ISBN: 978-1-4094-0134-6.

Scottish Affairs ◽

10.3366/scot.2015.0060 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 129-132

Author(s):

Christopher A Whatley

Keyword(s):

Church Of Scotland ◽

Ashgate Publishing ◽

The Church ◽

The Revolution

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Scottish Missionaries, ‘Protestant Hinduism’ and the Scottish Sense of Empire in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-century India

The Scottish Historical Review ◽

10.3366/shr.2007.86.2.278 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 86 (2) ◽

pp. 278-313 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Philip Constable

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Western India ◽

Early Nineteenth Century ◽

Church Of Scotland ◽

Free Church ◽

Intellectual Engagement ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

The Church

This article examines the Scottish missionary contribution to a Scottish sense of empire in India in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Initially, the article reviews general historiographical interpretations which have in recent years been developed to explain the Scottish relationship with British imperial development in India. Subsequently the article analyses in detail the religious contributions of Scottish Presbyterian missionaries of the Church of Scotland and the Free Church Missions to a Scottish sense of empire with a focus on their interaction with Hindu socioreligious thought in nineteenth-century western India. Previous missionary historiography has tended to focus substantially on the emergence of Scottish evangelical missionary activity in India in the early nineteenth century and most notably on Alexander Duff (1806–78). Relatively little has been written on Scottish Presbyterian missions in India in the later nineteenth century, and even less on the significance of their missionary thought to a Scottish sense of Indian empire. Through an analysis of Scottish Presbyterian missionary critiques in both vernacular Marathi and English, this article outlines the orientalist engagement of Scottish Presbyterian missionary thought with late nineteenth-century popular Hinduism. In conclusion this article demonstrates how this intellectual engagement contributed to and helped define a Scottish missionary sense of empire in India.

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