The Pilgrimage and Conversion of Thomas Chalmers: Following His Journey from Anstruther to Glasgow

ISBN-13: 9781788740876 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 294 str.

David Jackson

Opis

This work follows the life and work of the first forty-three years of Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847) from the beginnings of his childhood in Anstruther to the end of his ministerial career in Glasgow in 1823. He became a theologian, minister and Scottish reformer and is best remembered for his involvement in the Disruption of 1843.

Recenzje

«David Jackson's book reveals the intense ambiguities in Chalmers' life, both the positives and the negatives, and sheds new light on one of the most intriguing churchmen of the nineteenth century.» (David Jasper, Professor Emeritus, University of Glasgow)

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Early Environment, Influence and Development - The Divine Imposter - A Disturbed Mindset - A Glorious Failure - The Humbling Retreat of Lieutenant Chalmers - A Theological Synthesis of Conversion: Butler and Pascal - Properties Involved in Individual Conversion - The Infinity of the Mind in Human Nature - Imprints from Anstruther - The Restless Genes of a Godly Commonwealth Ideology - The Shadow of Napoleon - The Dundee Sermon - Instruments of Providence and Politics - Piety, Power and Politics - Members of the Same Body - The Reluctant Missionary and Stevenson MacGill - Into the Valley - Theology and Chalmers - An Astronomical Argument - Power and Immortality: London - The Glory of Theory - Footprints of Reform - Analysis of the St John's Experiment I: Pauperism - Analysis of the St John's Experiment II: Education - The Final Humiliation of Chalmers' Ministry in Glasgow - Roots, Conversion and the Establishment - Literary Commentators on Chalmers, 1979-1988 - Newspaper Comment.

O autorze

David C. Jackson left school at the age of fifteen to become a printer's copy reader. Following National Service in the Royal Air Force, he worked in sales and marketing for twenty-two years. After retiring, he gained a Bachelor of Divinity and a Masters at the University of Glasgow, before completing a PhD investigating Thomas Chalmers.