Scottish Christianity in the Modern World

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

• Introduction, Stewart J. Brown and George Newlands; A.C. Cheyne - an appreciation, D.W.D. Shaw. Part 1 Faith and doubt: Carlyle and the secession, Ian Campbell; a Carlylean elegy in Auchtertool Kirkyard, Kenneth J. Fielding; Christian faith and unbelief in modern Scotland, William Ferguson; Old Testament criticism and the education of Victorian children, Barbara J. MacHaffie; transforming the creed, Peter Matheson; John Baillie and friends, in Germany and at war, George Newlands. Part 2 Church, state and society: reaction in Scotland to the Irish famine, John F. McCaffrey; the sacrament at Crathie, 1873, Owen Chadwick; "unrestricted conference" - myth and reality in Scottish ecumenism, David M. Thompson; etablishing disestablishment -some reflections on Wales and Scotland, Keith Robbins; presbyterians and catholics in 20th-century Scotland, Stewart J. Brown; Scotland and Malawi, 1859-1964, Andrew C. Ross.