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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 II begins with the early Enlightenment and concludes in late Victorian Scotland.
List of contents
- List of Contributors
- 1: Donald Macleod: The Significance of the Westminster Confession
- 2: Paul Helm: Between Orthodoxy and Enlightenment: Blackwell, Halyburton, and Riccaltoun
- 3: Jonathan Yaeger: Jonathan Edwards and his Scottish Contemporaries
- 4: Christian Maurer: Early Enlightenment Shifts: Simson, Campbell, and Leechman
- 5: Thomas Ahnert: Philosophy and Theology in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
- 6: Stewart J. Brown: Moderate Theology and Preaching, c.1750-1800
- 7: John McIntosh: Eighteenth-Century Evangelicalism
- 8: Anne MacLeod Hill: Reformed Theology in Gaelic Women's Poetry and Song
- 9: James Foster: Literate Piety: John Witherspoon and James McCosh
- 10: David Bebbington: Dissenting Theology from the 1720s to the 1840s
- 11: Tom McInally: The Influence of the Scots Colleges in Paris, Rome and Spain
- 12: Raymond McCluskey: Catholic Thought in the Late-Eighteenth Century: George Hay and John Geddes
- 13: Mark Elliott: Natural and Revealed Theology in Hill and Chalmers
- 14: Iain Whyte: Theology, Slavery, and Abolition 1756-1848
- 15: Ian Campbell: Scottish Literature in a Time of Change
- 16: Alison M. Jack: The Calvinist Paradox in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature
- 17: Andrew Purves: New Trends: Erskine of Linlathen, Irving, and McLeod Campbell
- 18: Michael Bräutigam: Free Church Theology 1843-1900: Disruption Fathers and Believing Critics
- 19: Rowan Strong: Episcopalian Theology 1689-c.1900
- 20: Andrew R. Holmes: Scottish Theology in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
- 21: David Fergusson: Hume amongst the Theologians
- 22: Frances M. Henderson: The Borthwick Sisters: Experiential Theology and Hymnody in the Nineteenth-Century Free Church
- 23: Bryan Spinks: The Liturgical Revolution: Prayers, Hymns, and Stained Glass
- 24: William Johnstone: Biblical Criticism in the Nineteenth-Century: Alexander Geddes to William Robertson Smith
- 25: Will Storrar: As Open as Possible: Presbyterian Modernity in Scotland's Long Nineteenth Century
- 26: Eric G. McKimmon: The Secession and United Presbyterian Churches
- 27: Colin Kidd: Extra-Terrestrials and the Heavens in Nineteenth-Century Theology
- 28: David Fergusson: The Reception of Darwin
- 29: Finlay Macdonald: Liberal, Broad Church, and Reforming Influences in the Late-Nineteenth Century
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 II begins with the early Enlightenment and concludes in late Victorian Scotland.
Additional text
With such a variety of perspectives, this volume offers something for anyone interested in Scottish theol-ogy from the early Enlightenment through the Victorian era.
