H. Gilbert, As a tale that is told: a Church of Scotland parish, 1913–1954

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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All His Father’s Sins

10.1093/oso/9780198753155.003.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Timothy Larsen

Keyword(s):

Christian Faith ◽

Christian Identity ◽

Jeremy Bentham ◽

Church Of Scotland ◽

Parting Ways ◽

The Church ◽

Critique Of Religion

This chapter explores the life and thought of John Stuart Mill’s father, James Mill. It seeks to unravel his journey from pursuing the calling of an ordained Christian minister in the Church of Scotland to parting ways with the Christian faith altogether. It will also seek to understand James Mill’s mature critique of religion, as well as that of his friend the Utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, the author of several works critical of traditional Christianity. The unhappy marriage of John Stuart Mill’s parents is presented as a vital background for understanding his future choices and convictions. The Christian identity of his mother and siblings are also presented.

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Scotland

10.1093/oso/9780199644636.003.0008 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Alasdair Raffe

Keyword(s):

Church Of England ◽

Legal Protection ◽

Church Of Scotland ◽

The Status ◽

Steep Decline ◽

The Church ◽

Established Church ◽

Episcopal Authority

This chapter examines the transformations in the status and character of Scottish Episcopalianism from 1662 to 1829. Despite being re-established in the Church of Scotland in 1661–2, episcopacy was abolished in 1689. Thereafter Episcopalians were a Nonconformist group, and only the minority of congregations whose clergy were loyal to Queen Anne and her Hanoverian successors enjoyed legal protection. But while the intermittent prosecution of the Jacobite clergy contributed to a steep decline in the number of Scottish Episcopalians, disestablishment allowed the clergy to reassess episcopal authority, and to experiment with liturgical reforms. After transferring their allegiance to the Hanoverians in 1788, the Episcopalians drew closer to the Church of England, formally adopting the Thirty-Nine Articles in 1804. By the end of the period, the Episcopalians saw themselves as an independent, non-established Church, one of the branches of international Anglicanism.

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Hymnody and Liturgy

The Oxford Handbook of Presbyterianism ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190608392.013.36 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 491-506

Author(s):

Jonathan Hehn

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Seventeenth Century ◽

Sixteenth Century ◽

North American ◽

John Calvin ◽

Church Of Scotland ◽

Metrical Psalmody ◽

History Of ◽

The Church

This chapter outlines the history of Presbyterian worship practice from the sixteenth century to the present, with a focus on North American Presbyterians. Tracing both their hymnody and their liturgy ultimately to John Calvin, Presbyterian communions have a distinct heritage of worship inherited from the Church of Scotland via seventeenth-century Puritans. Long marked by metrical psalmody and guided by the Westminster Directory, Presbyterian worship underwent substantial changes in the nineteenth century. Evangelical and liturgical movements led Presbyterians away from a Puritan visual aesthetic, into the use of nonscriptural hymnody, and toward a recovery of liturgical books. Mainline North American and Scottish Presbyterians solidified these trends in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; however, conservative North American denominations and some other denominations globally continue to rely heavily on the use of a worship directory and metrical psalmody.

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