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Scottish Theology

by John MacLeod

‘It has been my endeavour to handle my theme in a free and

Publication

Publisher
The Banner of Truth Trust
Date published
Aug 5, 2015
Print status
In print

The Physical Book

Binding
Cloth-bound
Dust jacket
Yes
Total pages
400 pages
ISBN-13
9781848716155

Reference

Publisher page
View at publisher

Contents

  • Foreword by Ian Hamilton
  • Preface
  • John Macleod
  • I. INTRODUCTORY
  • National Independence and What Came of It – Knox – The Puritans – An Unrealised Possibility – The Scots Confession – 1. The Sacraments – 2. Faith and Assurance – 3. The Doctrine of the Church 1
  • II. THE SUCCESSORS OF KNOX
  • i. The Men of the Reformation Century: 1. Andrew Melville; 2. John Welsh; 3. John Craig; 4. Robert Rollock; 5. John Davidson – ii. The Men of the Sub-Reformation Age: 1. Robert Bruce of Kinnaird; 2. David Calderwood; 3. Robert Boyd; 4. John Cameron – iii. The Conformists with the Royal Policy
  • III. THE SECOND REFORMATION GALAXY
  • 1. Alexander Henderson – 2. Samuel Rutherford – 3. George Gillespie – 4. Robert Baillie – 5. David Dickson – 6. George Hutcheson and James Fergusson – 7. James Wood and Robert Blair of St Andrews – 8. Andrew Gray and Hugh Binning – 9. William Guthrie of Fenwick – 10. John Livingstone – 11. James Durham – 12. The Faith of the Gospel on Fire
  • IV. THE POST-REVOLUTION CHURCH
  • 1. Carstares and His Brethren – 2. The Preaching of the Age – 3. John Monro – 4. Gospel Power—James Wodrow’s Judgment – 5. Assurance – 6. Alexander Shields – 7. An Uncertain Sound – 8. Specimens of the Orthodox Pulpit – 9. Hog of Carnock – 10. Conformists of the Leighton School – 11. Thomas Halyburton – 12. A Question of Precedence – 13. The Other Side: Dr A. Kuyper – 14. What Led up to the ‘Marrow’ Controversy?
  • V. THE NEONOMIANS AND THE MARROW CONTROVERSY
  • i. The Neonomians: 1. Their Origin; 2. Hyper-Calvinists; 3. James Hadow; 4. Thomas Boston and ‘The Marrow’ – ii. The Marrow Controversy: 1. Its Course; 2. M‘Crie and Brown of Whitburn; 3. The ‘Marrow’ Teaching Vulnerable
  • VI. THEOLOGY IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE SECESSION
  • 1. Outlook of Early Seceders – 2. The Evangelical Message – 3. ‘The Breach’ and After – 4. Brea’s Teaching – 5. A Glance at Large – 6. Secession Writers – 7. John Brown of Haddington – 8. John Glas and His Work – 9. Sandemanian Faith
  • VII. THE EIGHTEENTH - CENTURY CONTRAST - EVANGELICALS AND MODERATES
  • 1. John Maclaurin – 2. John Inglis and Missions – 3. The Moderates – 4. Witherspoon on Moderatism – 5. 18th-Century Culture – 6. Moderatism Timid and Subservient – 7. Moderatism and Theology – 8. John Witherspoon and Scottish Theology Overseas – 9. Lady Glenorchy’s Circle – 10. Dr John Erskine and His Friends – 11. John Love – 12. The Brothers Haldane
  • VIII. NEW LIGHT AND WHAT IT HAS DONE
  • i. What is New Light?: 1. Cameronians and Relief Welcome It; 2. The Secession Synods; 3. Adam Gib; 4. Change of Testimony: Anti-Burghers; 5. The Burghers Change Too; 6. Fixed or Fluid?; 7. Aggressive Encroachment; 8. Morison and His Professors; 9. John Brown, Tertius; 10. Andrew Marshall – ii. New Light at Work: 1. Ralph Wardlaw; 2. Hugh Martin on Wardlaw; 3. Macgregor on Amyraldianism; 4. Present-Day Effects in Evangelism – iii. Old Lights Stand Fast – iv. New Light Leaders – v. Miscellaneous – vi. The Issue of the New Light Tendency
  • IX. THE EVANGLICAL SCHOOL AND VICTORIAN ORTHODOXY
  • i. The Evangelical Revival – ii. Excesses and Extravagances – iii. A Defence of Catholic Verity – iv. Defence of the Canon of Holy Scripture – v. The Spread of the Revival – The ‘Calvinistic Recrudescence’ in the State Church – vii. Dr Chalmers – viii. Dr William Cunningham – ix. Dr R. S. Candlish – x. Dr Maclagan – xi. Drs Gordon and Bruce – xii. M‘Cheyne and the Bonar Brothers – xiii. David Brown and Patrick Fairbairn – xiv. Missionary Activity: 1. Duff and Wilson; 2. John Macdonald of Calcutta; 3. W. C. Burns; 4. John Duncan – xv. A Great Senatus – xvi. The Puritan Tradition – xvii. Dr A. Moody Stuart – xviii. The Symingtons – xix. Dr Guthrie – xx. Change Ahead
  • X. LATER DEVELOPMENTS – THE EBB-TIDE
  • i. Morisonianism and Independency – ii. Other Influences Telling on the Churches: 1. Broad Churchism: (a) Lee, (b) Tulloch and Caird, (c) Norman Macleod; 2. High Sacramentalism – iii. Change Outside the State Church: 1. U.P. Synod; 2. The Broad School in the Free Church – iv. Authority of Scripture at Stake – v. A Striking Forecast – vi. A Type of Union Policy at Work – vii. Moncrieff’s Fear – viii. Article 1 of 1921 – ix. Dr Martin on Freedom to Change – x. Dr Hugh Martin – xi. Dr John Kennedy
  • Appendix: The Work of a Theological College
  • Index