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This three-volume series provides a critical examination of the history of theology in Scotland from the early middle ages to the close of the twentieth century. Volume I covers the period from the appearance of Christianity around the time of Columba to the era of Reformed Orthodoxy in the seventeenth century.
List of contents
- List of Contributors
- 1: David Fergusson and Mark W. Elliott: Introduction
- 2: Thomas O Loughlin: Theology in Scotland before Scholasticism
- 3: Lydia Schumacher: Richard of St Victor
- 4: Peter Damian-Grint: Adam of Dryburgh
- 5: Stephen Mark Holmes: Liturgical Theology before 1600
- 6: Richard Cross: Duns Scotus
- 7: Simon J. G. Burton: John Ireland and the Transformation of Scotist Theology
- 8: John Slotemaker: John Mair as Theologian
- 9: Giovanni Gellera: Sixteenth-Century Philosophy and Theology after John Mair
- 10: Euan Cameron: John Knox and Andrew Melville
- 11: Mark W. Elliott: Political and Ecclesial Theology in the Sixteenth Century
- 12: Iain R. Torrance: The Bible in Sixteenth-Century Scotland
- 13: Martin Holt Dotterweich: Habit and Belief in the Early Scottish Reformation
- 14: Ian Hazlett: Confessions and Catechisms to c.1620
- 15: Mark W. Elliott: Spiritual Theology in Bruce, Howie, Johnston, Boyd, and Leighton
- 16: Federal Theology from the Reformation to c. 1677
- 17: Guy M. Richard: The Covenant Idea in mid-seventeenth-century Scotland
- 18: Alexander Broadie: The Reformed Scholasticism of James Dundas
- 19: Whitney G. Gamble: The Theology of the Westminster Confession of Faith in its Context
- 20: Aaron Clay Denlinger: The Aberdeen Doctors and Henry Scougal
- 21: Marie-Luise Ehrenschwendter: Episcopalian spirituality: the Garden Brothers and Henry Scougal
- 22: James Eglinton: Early Modern French and Dutch Connections
- 23: Tom Green: Early Modern Jurisprudence and Theology
- 24: Stephen G. Myers: The Marrow Controversy: Boston, Erskine, and Hadow
- 25: R. Scott Spurlock: Boundaries of Scottish Reformed Orthodoxy 1560 1700
About the author
David Fergusson is Professor of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the British Academy. His publications include The Providence of God: A Polyphonic Approach (2018) and Faith and Its Critics: A Conversation (2009).
Mark Elliott is Professor of Theology at the University of Glasgow and Professorial Fellow at the University of Toronto (Wycliffe College), having been Professor at St Andrews University. He is from Glasgow, educated at Oxford, Aberdeen and Cambridge and recipient of A von Humboldt stipendia for research trips at Heidelberg and Munich. He has written on Providence in terms both of the History of the idea and of the biblical and theological foundations. He specialises in History of biblical exegesis and doctrine.
Summary
This three-volume series provides a critical examination of the history of theology in Scotland from the early middle ages to the close of the twentieth century. Volume I covers the period from the appearance of Christianity around the time of Columba to the era of Reformed Orthodoxy in the seventeenth century.
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...those who will consult these volumes can expect to learn about matters that continue to be of great significance to the future of Britain and Europe.
