Scottish Christianity in the Modern World: In Honour of A. C. Cheyne

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A new and wide-ranging study of Christianity in Scotland, from the eighteenth century to the present.The contributors include D. W. D. Shaw, Ian Campbell, Kenneth Fielding, William Ferguson, Barbara MacHaffie, Peter Matheson, John McCaffrey, Owen Chadwick, David Thompson, Keith Robbins, Andrew Ross, Stewart J. Brown and George Newlands.Topics encompass varieties of unbelief, challenges to the Westminster confession, John Baillie, Queen Victoria and the Church of Scotland, the Scottish ecumenical movement, the disestablishment movement, and Presbyterian-Catholic relations.

Stewart J. Brown in Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, University of Edinburgh. George Newlands is Professor of Theology, University of Glasgow.

"At a time when the discipline of church history is under severe threat in a number of Scotland's ancient divinity faculties, it serves as a reminder of just how much this branch of study can illuminate our understanding of both theology and the contemporary state of the Church, as well as being fascinating in its own right." - Church Times, June 22, 2001