The History of Scottish Theology, Volume II: From the Early Enlightenment to the Late Victorian Era

by David Fergusson (Editor), Mark Elliott (Editor)

Overview

This three-volume work comprises over eighty essays surveying the history of Scottish theology from the early middle ages onwards. Written by an international team of scholars, the collection provides the most comprehensive review yet of the theological movements, figures, and themes that have shaped Scottish culture and exercised a significant influence in other parts of the world. Attention is given to different traditions and to the dispersion of Scottish theology through exile, migration, and missionary activity. The volumes present in diachronic perspective the theologies that have flourished in Scotland from early monasticism until the end of the twentieth century. The History of Scottish Theology, 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. Volume II begins with the early Enlightenment and concludes in late Victorian Scotland. Volume III explores the 'long twentieth century'. Recurrent themes and challenges are assessed, but also new currents and theological movements that arose through Renaissance humanism, Reformation teaching, federal theology, the Scottish Enlightenment, evangelicalism, missionary, Biblical criticism, idealist philosophy, dialectical theology, and existentialism. Chapters also consider the Scots Catholic colleges in Europe, Gaelic women writers, philosophical scepticism, the dialogue with science, and the reception of theology in liturgy, hymnody, art, literature, architecture, and stained glass. Contributors also discuss the treatment of theological themes in Scottish literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191077234
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	09/12/2019
Series:	History of Scottish Theology
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	464
File size:	1 MB

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.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

"... the editors have succeeded in crafting a fine volume that brings together a compilation of essays that illuminates the contours of Scottish theology and church life during this period. This work makes a major contribution to the field and will be required reading for anyone studying this fascinating epoch of creativity, reform, and dissension in Scottish theology." — Darin D. Lenz, Fresno Pacific University, Religious Studies Review

"...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." — Johannes Zachhuber, University of Oxford, MODERN BELIEVING

"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." — Bonnie Soper, Eighteenth-Century Scotland

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