The Curious Conversion of Thomas Chalmers

ISBN-13: 9781433191138 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 204 str.

John D. Clayton

Opis

Thomas Chalmers was arguably the most popular Scot and influential churchman of his age, but when he was first educated, ordained, installed, and serving as a parish minister in the Church of Scotland, he was by his own admission not yet a converted Christian.

Spis treści

Introduction - An Unexpected Conversion - The Scottish Church and State in Historical Context - A Divine Right - Blasphemous Crime and Capital Punishment - Telling Trials in the Kirk - Midnight in the Kirk - The Rise of Moderatism - Moderate Ministers - An Evangelical Spark - Revival in the Kirk - Disruption in the Kirk - The Westminster Assembly and the Confusion of Church and State - The Influential Doctrine of George Gillespie and Samuel Rutherford - Patronage in Scotland - Natural Religion and the Scottish Enlightenment - The Marrow's Four Points of Divergence from the Kirk - The Secession of 1733 - Revival in the Parishes of Early 19th Century Scotland - Bibliography.

O autorze

John D. Clayton (PhD, Columbia International University) is the Senior Minister of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Fort Smith, Arkansas.