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Informationen zum Autor Johnston McKay is a writer, broadcaster, theologian, lecturer and Church of Scotland minister. For nearly ten years, he presented the popular weekly programme Personal Touch on Radio Scotland. In 2007 he was awarded a PhD by the University of Edinburgh for his thesis on 'The Kingdom of God and the Presbyterian Churches' Social Theology and Action c1830-c1914. He has since been made a Visiting Fellow at New College in the University of Edinburgh and been appointed Chalmers Lecturer 2010-2112 in the Universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews. He has written extensively on Scottish theological history and is author of Glimpses of Hope, God beyond Ground Zero Clerk (St Andrew Press) A Touch Personal and This Small Pool (St Mungo Press). He is an engaging public speaker and was Senior Producer for Religious Broadcasting at BBC Scotland from 1987-98. He is currently Clerk at the Presbytery of Ardrossan. Klappentext What did the Church ever do for us?Addressing this question which is often thrown in the face of theologians, Johnston McKay unearths a practical social theology of the Church in Scotland in the century from 1820. It has been widely believed that the Church was largely mute on the widespread poverty and deprivation which accompanied the rapid expanse of urban life in Scotland. This study asserts - through the example of theologians Robert Flint and the parish minister Frederick Lockhart Robertson - that the Church was not lacking in commitment to improving such conditions. Flint's publication of Christ's Kingdom upon Earth led the Church of Scotland in Glasgow to investigate slum housing conditions and led to the idea that religion could not be complacent about the need for social action.Johnston McKay is a writer, broadcaster, theologian, lecturer and Church of Scotland minister. For nearly ten years he presented the popular weekly programme Personal Touch on Radio Scotland. He has written extensively on Scottish theological history and is the author of Glimpses of Hope (2002) and This Small Pool (1998). Zusammenfassung It has been widely believed that the church was largely mute on the widespread poverty which accompanied the rapid expanse of urban life. This study asserts that the church was not lacking in commitment to improving such conditions! through the example of theologians Robert Flint and the parish minister Frederick Lockhart Robertson. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; 1. Signs and Signals - The Stirrings of Social Criticism; 2. From Church to Kingdom - Robert Flint's new model; 3. The Church and Housing - Flint's social theology in practice; 4. The Parting of the Ways - Social Theology in the United Free Church; 5. The Clash of Opposites - The Kingdom of God in Debate; 6. Full Circle - Social Criticism in the Inter-War Years....
