...The church was a special community within the Scottish realm. As throughout the Christian world, the clergy were a separate order of men and women with their own privileged place in a society that, virtually without exception, followed the teachings of the western church. The view of this Christian...

...While there was an attempt by Robert Flint's disciple successor in Edinburgh's chair of divinity William P Paterson, who was moderator of the Church of Scotland's General Assembly in 1919, to continue Flint's emphasis on the Kingdom of God on earth, when leadership in the Church of Scotland passed...

... Rebellion’ of the 1640s stretched across the division between Church and Dissent. The author is not simply concerned with history as a representation of the past, but history also as part of the bitterly divided collective memory of the present. Focusing on the relationship between the history...

...Chapter Two takes as its subject the New Mexican poet Peggy Pond Church. Although Church is not a canonically recognised writer, this chapter reveals that her poetry and prose writings contain innovative depictions of an infinite, ecological Nature that is even capable of containing the new nuclear...

... American. The chapter describes how Douglass’s performances evolved as he discovered how to best relate his antislavery arguments to audiences of varied class and social backgrounds. Douglass learned when to comment on local issues such as the Free Church of Scotland and when better to remain silent...

...Christianity in Central Asia has had to negotiate between militant atheism and Islam. The challenge in the region remains the proclamation of the gospel amidst diverse ideologies. However, the witness of the Church is challenged by internal disunity. Communities that have been Islamic for centuries...

...In early eighteenth-century London the church remained an important employer of musicians. One of the leading composers of English church music was Maurice Greene, whose canticles and anthems display his talent for vivid musical settings of the texts. Greene therefore serves as an ideal example...

... proposals galvanized fund-raising amongst ordinary people in Scotland and abroad, gifts of building materials and voluntary labour.This chapter examines schemes for the town houses of Aberdeen, Dundee, Sanquhar and Haddington, Robert Gordon’s College and Glasgow University Library, Hamilton Parish Church...

...Despite its ubiquitous presence, the Anglican church in colonial Atlantic Canada has received little attention from scholars. Beginning with the missionary activities of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG) which relied on significant revenue from enslaved labour in Barbados...

...This chapter discusses the Restoration era as one of the murkier corners of Scottish history. Previous studies of Scotland in the reign of Charles II have tended to focus exclusively on the religious conflict between presbyterian dissenters and a government-supported episcopal church...

..., to the Covenanters. At each stage in this memory, the heroes of Scotland’s past had overcome the threat posed by their antithesis, whether Edward I or Edward II, the Roman Catholic church, or the later Stuart kings. Both explicitly and implicitly, the narrative of civil and religious liberty framed the commemoration...

...This chapter discusses Venizelos' relations with the church. His view of the church was shaped by his personal experience of the stance and activities of the Orthodox Church in Crete. The Church of Crete naturally played its part in the crisis in relations between Venizelos and Prince George, high...

... with the medieval period where local governance was shared in both countries between Church and State, but focussing mainly on the greatest period of change, in the late 18^th and 19^th centuries, following the Scottish Union with England in 1707 and 19^th C extensions of the franchise...

... and affiliations: Norway’s history of compulsory affiliation with the Lutheran Church, and Scotland’s religious pluralism, where political affiliations often served to reduce religious tensions. The markedly different relationship between Church and State; Scotland’s Reformation being a largely populist movement...

... of the press from the camp of High Church orthodoxy. It also considers how a number of writers, both supporters and opponents of the 'liberty of the press', linked the issue of press freedom to liberty of conscience and increasingly employed an idiom of natural rights in doing so. Champion Justin civil...

...This chapter examines the interactions between politics inside and outside of the British Parliament as well as the issue of Church reform. Attempts by Parliament to improve the Church of England's performance of its pastoral functions ceased following the Hanoverian accession, but resumed...

... in the parishes of Humbie and Cambuslang at mid-eighteenth century. Their exceptional nature confirms the broad outlines of the mature system. Cambuslang Humbie Mitchison Rosalind poor’s money Scotland Church of Calvin Jean Overtures 1696 Overtures 1704 Pardovan Walter Steuart of sessions Cramond...

...The examination of religion as a social practice reveals the importance of taken for granted practices of organizing and governance. In the case of the Church of Scotland, these involved mundane practices of detailed record keeping and a form of accountability which emphasised order and structure...

..., meaning not only that different men experienced authority in different ways, but that experiences were subject to change over the course of the life cycle. age authority boys church courts emotion honour household kirk session marriage masculinity morality patriarchy power Reformation...