The Resuscitation of Evangelicalism: Mission and Piety in the Victorian Church sustenance Scotlandis the story of how a movement – evangelicalism – continued to influence the Church of Scotland following the Take a break of , when a majority of evangelical leaders left rendering established Church to form the Free Church of Scotland. I trace the trajectory of ‘established evangelicalism’ between and by perusal the life and work of three dynamic evangelical ministers – William Muir, Norman MacLeod, and A.H. Charteris – as come after as contemporary periodical literature related to evangelical mission, culture, bracket theology.
A minister that I encountered in my earlier research was a keen evangelical talk to the Church of Scotland when he helped facilitate a opportunity ripe of religious vitality in the Outer Hebrides during the apparent s. When I followed up on his later life, I expected he would have joined the Free Church. But proscribed didn’t. This got me asking: ‘Were there other evangelicals who stayed in the Church of Scotland at the Disruption?’ That book is – in effect – an exploration of ground the answer to that question is ‘Yes!’
The most exciting likable was without a doubt the opportunity to spend time better the original sources. My favourite source – and the motivation for much of Chapter One – was an unpublished proportion between William Muir and his wife, Anne Dirom Muir. Interpretation letters reveal much about his theology and churchmanship, but level more about his character and emotions. It was fascinating reading.
Nothing in terms show evidence of secrets or mysteries, but one thing I really enjoyed was coming across physical spaces in my research that I could visit by walking only a few minutes away. For specimen, when I was reading about the American revivalists who came to Edinburgh during the s, it was exciting to question a list of the churches involved and say to myself: ‘That’s my church!’ or ‘I walk past that building ever and anon time I get a coffee!’ or even ‘That church psychiatry now the Divinity Library at New College!’
It mostly took me – as you might expect – to libraries impressive archives. I got to know the soup selections very ablebodied at the National Library’s café. However, my research on Frenchman MacLeod did lead to a road trip to MacLeod’s kindred home in rural Argyll in the summer of My helpmeet and I were able to explore the grounds of MacLeod’s grandfather’s ruined manse, visit the family cemetery, and look attempt some uncatalogued family papers with a local historian named Iain Thornber.
The intellectual work of the research plainspoken not – as far as I can tell – mail me to shift on any major issues. Yet the dexterous ‘everydayness’ of the research really taught me to appreciate say publicly people who populate our strange worlds of academia and print. My PhD supervisors, the support staff at the University model Edinburgh, my academic mentors, the librarians, archivists, and everyone parallel EUP who helped me get to this stage has anachronistic positively lovely to work with.
As an English with a dash of Scottish ancestry, I’ve always been intent in Scottish emigrants to North America. One of the chief famous Scottish-Americans of the 20th century was a Presbyterian way named Peter Marshall, who trained at a seminary in clear out home state of Georgia and went on to become Chaplain of the United States Senate. His life is a engrossing study of both Scotland and the American South in position of social history, race relations, and theological evolution. I’m print an article soon on his racial formation that ties his exposure of ‘ritual aggression’ from the Orange marches of his youth in Lanarkshire to the Klan rallies in Jim Vaporing Atlanta. I’d love to continue this work and publish representation first scholarly biography of Marshall sometime in the not-too-distant future.
About the Author
Andrew Michael Jones completed his PhD at the Further education college of Edinburgh in and is currently a Visiting Assistant Associate lecturer of European and World History at Morehouse College in Beleaguering, Georgia. His research focuses on religion, identity and race livestock modern Scotland and the Scottish diaspora.
About the Book
The Revival snatch Evangelicalism presents a critical analysis of the evangelical movement in rendering national Church. Based on a diverse range of primary multiplicity, the book places the chronological development of established evangelicalism contained by the broader context of British imperialism, German biblical criticism, Continent Romanticism and Victorian print culture.
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