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

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. The significance of the Westminster Confession /Donald Macleod --Between orthodoxy and Enlightenment : Blackwell, Halyburton, and Riccaltoun /Paul Helm --Jonathan Edwards and his Scottish contemporaries /Jonathan Yeager --Early Enlightenment shifts : Simson, Campbell, and Leechman /Christian Maurer --Philosophy and theology in the mid-eighteenth century /Thomas Ahnert --Moderate theology and preaching c.1750-1800 /Stewart J. Brown --Eighteenth-century evangelicalism /John R. McIntosh --Reformed theology in Gaelic women's poetry and song /Anne MacLeod Hill --Literate piety : John Witherspoon and James McCosh /James Foster --Dissenting theology from the 1720s to the 1840s /David Bebbington --The influence of the Scots Colleges in Paris, Rome, and Spain /Tom McInally --Catholic thought in the late eighteenth century : George Hay and John Geddes /Raymond McCluskey --Natural and revealed theology in Hill and Chalmers /Mark W. Elliott --Theology, slavery, and abolition 1756-1848 /Iain Whyte --Scottish literature in a time of change /Ian Campbell --The Calvinist paradox in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature /Alison M. Jack --New trends : Erskine of Linlathen, Irving, and McLeod Campbell /Andrew Purves --Free Church theology 1843-1900 : disruption fathers and believing critics /Michael Bräutigam --Episcopalian theology 1689-c.1900 /Rowan Strong --Scottish theology in nineteenth-century Ireland /Andrew R. Holmes --Hume amongst the theologians /David Fergusson --The Borthwick sisters : experiential theology and women's hymnody in the nineteenth-century Free Church /Frances M. Henderson --The liturgical revolution : prayers, hymns, and stained glass /Bryan D. Spinks --Biblical criticism in the nineteenth century : Alexander Geddes to William Robertson Smith /William Johnstone --As open as possible : Presbyterian modernity in Scotland's long nineteenth century /William Storrar --The secession and United Presbyterian churches /Eric G. McKimmon --Extra-terrestrials and the heavens in nineteenth-century theology /Colin Kidd --The reception of Darwin /David Fergusson --Liberal, broad church, and reforming influences in the late nineteenth century /Finlay A.J. Macdonald "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. 0The 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 themes0and 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.0Chapters 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" -- University Press Scholarship Online 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 themes0and 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.0Chapters 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. -- Publisher, page four of dust jacket This second volume in __The History of Scottish Theology__ comprises 29 essays ranging from the early Enlightenment to the end of the ‘long nineteenth century’. Attention is devoted to key doctrinal and apologetic themes relating to the inheritance of Reformed orthodoxy and the appearance of deism, as well as to newer challenges and revisionist approaches that later emerged. The extent to which the mid eighteenth-century scholars of the Church of Scotland were committed to the movement that later became known as ‘the Scottish Enlightenment’ is discussed by several contributors who explore the importance of Moderate and Evangelical trends. The influence of nineteenth-century continental developments, including kenotic Christology, idealism, and biblical criticism, is also registered, alongside exploration of the issues raised by religious scepticism, slavery, and the natural sciences. Several essays are devoted to describing the wider dissemination and refraction of theological ideas in Gaelic women’s poetry, Scottish literature, liturgical reform, preaching, hymn writing, and civic architecture. The international influence of Scottish theology is also described, both through the work of important thinkers who migrated to the USA and in the establishment of Scots colleges in Europe. 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. 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