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Zusatztext The Irish Presbyterian Mind is nevertheless a significant contribution to our understanding of the making of modern Ireland, and especially of Ulster. It is a major achievement, that Holmes has completed despite the (surprising) paucity of manuscript sources and the inaccessibility of the some of the records (including much of the Davey Collection, which is important for 20th-century developments and post-Partition attitudes to social and economic - as well as theological - issues). Informationen zum Autor Andrew Holmes is Lecturer in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy, and Politics at Queen's University Belfast. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2007 and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2008. He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Irish Historical Studies and a committee member of the Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies. In 2016, he was an Eaton Fellow at the University of New Brunswick and has previously been a Visiting Scholar at Boston College (2011) and at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh (2009, 2013). He is the author of The Shaping of Ulster Presbyterian Belief and Practice, 1770-1840 (2006). Klappentext This study examines the complex religious and intellectual life of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland between 1830 and 1930. It considers the Church's response to the numerous challenges of modernity and the continued importance of conservative Protestantism in modern Northern Ireland. Zusammenfassung This study examines the complex religious and intellectual life of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland between 1830 and 1930. It considers the Church's response to the numerous challenges of modernity and the continued importance of conservative Protestantism in modern Northern Ireland. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations Introduction: The Return of Religion and the Irish Presbyterian Mind 1: Confession, Subscription, and Revival, c.1800-1914 2: The Presbyterian Story: Church History, Church Government, and Unionist Identity Politics, 1830-1914 3: Mind and Matter: Mental and Natural Science 4: The Bible: Criticism, Hermeneutics, and Inspiration 5: Reconstruction, Revival, and the Triumph of Experience, 1914-1930 Conclusion Bibliography ...
