The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland

A nuanced approach to the role played by clerics at a turbulent time for religious affairs.

List of contents

Introduction
Chris R. Langley, Catherine E. McMillan and Russell Newton

Part I. Themes
1. Exhortations and Expectations: Preaching about the Ideal Minister in Post-Reformation Scotland
Michelle D. Brock
2. Ministers and the Bible in Early Modern Scotland
Russell Newton
3. The Protestant Clergy and Poor Relief, 1560-1660
John McCallum and Helen Gair
4. Scotland's 'Holy Households': Wives and Children of Reformed ministers
Janay Nugent and L. Rae Stauffer
5. Anticlericalism in Early Modern Scotland?
Chris R. Langley

Part II. Case Studies
6. Pastors in Search of a Congregation: Clerical Calls for Reform Before 1546
Elizabeth Tapscott
7. 'Doctrein' or 'Filthie Speachis'? The St Andrews Ministers and the Politics of the 1590s
Michael F. Graham
8. Clerical Culture and Island Logic in Early Modern Orkney
Peter Marshall
9. 'Gryt Abuse is Found in this Toune': James Sharpe and Moral Reformation in South Leith, 1639-45
Claire McNulty
10. Pastoral Cares, Covenant, and Courtship in John Dury's Personal Correspondence, 1641-5
Felicity Lyn Maxwell
11. 'Wings of the Soul': Moderating Emotion in the Preaching of Hugh Binning (1627-53)
Nathan C. J. Hood

Afterword
Jane Dawson

Bibliography
Index

About the author

Chris R. Langley, Catherine E. McMillan, Russell Newton

Summary

A nuanced approach to the role played by clerics at a turbulent time for religious affairs.

Product details

• Authors: Michelle D. Brock, Jane E A Dawson, Chris R. Langley, John Mccallum, Catherine E. McMillan, Russell Newton, Caroline Palmer
• Assisted by: Chris R Langley (Editor), Chris R. Langley (Editor), Chris R. (Contributor) Langley (Editor), Catherine E McMillan (Editor), Catherine E. McMillan (Editor), Catherine E. (Person) McMillan (Editor), Russell Newton (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781783276196
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-619-6
• No. of pages: 290
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 581 g
• Series: St Andrews Studies in Scottish History; St Andrews Studies in Scottish
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity