The History of Scottish Theology, Volume III: The Long Twentieth Century

David Fergusson, Mark Elliott

Oxford University Press, 2019 - Religion - 400 pages

This three-volume work comprises over eighty essays surveying the history of Scottish theology from the early middle ages onwards. Written by an international team of scholars, the collection provides the most comprehensive review yet of the theological movements, figures, and themes that have shaped Scottish culture and exercised a significant influence in other parts of the world. Attention is given to different traditions and to the dispersion of Scottish theology through exile, migration, and missionary activity.

The volumes present in diachronic perspective the theologies that have flourished in Scotland from early monasticism until the end of the twentieth century. The History of Scottish Theology, Volume I covers the period from the appearance of Christianity around the time of Columba to the era of Reformed Orthodoxy in the seventeenth century. Volume II begins with the early Enlightenment and concludes in late Victorian Scotland. Volume III explores the 'long twentieth century'. Recurrent themes and challenges are assessed, but also new currents and theological movements that arose through Renaissance humanism, Reformation teaching, federal theology, the Scottish Enlightenment, evangelicalism, mission, biblical criticism, idealist philosophy, dialectical theology, and existentialism. Chapters also consider the Scots Catholic colleges in Europe, Gaelic women writers, philosophical scepticism, the dialogue with science, and the reception of theology in liturgy, hymnody, art, literature, architecture, and stained glass. Contributors also discuss the treatment of theological themes in Scottish literature.

Contents

• The Theology of Carmina Gadelica: 1
• Scottish Kenotic Theology: 19
• Theologies of the Cross Denney and Forsyth: 35
• The Theology of the Scottish Protestant Missionary Movement: 51
• Theology and Ecumenism after Edinburgh 1910: 64
• From Idealism to Personalism Caird Oman and Macmurray: 79
• The Gifford Lectures: 94
• A Century of Social Theology: 106
• John Baillie and Donald Baillie: 119
• Theology and Art in Scotland: 132
• The Influence of Barth in Scotland: 146
• Modern Christology Mackintosh Baillie and Macquarrie: 161
• The Dissemination of Scottish Theology TT Clark: 175
• The Scottish Theological Diaspora Canada: 190
• The Scottish Theological Diaspora Australasia: 203
• Ronald Gregor Smith: 214
• Thomas F Torrance: 227
• Theology and Practice of Mission in MidTwentiethCentury Scotland: 242
• The Revival of Celtic Christianity: 259
• Catholic and Protestant Sensibilities in Scottish Literature Stevenson to Spark: 271
• Theological Constructions of Scottish National Identity: 288
• Catholic Theology since Vatican II: 303
• Late TwentiethCentury Controversies in Sexual Ethics Gender and Ordination: 317
• Episcopalian Theology in the Twentieth Century: 333
• Reformed Theology in the Later Twentieth Century: 347
• Index of Names: 361
• Index of Subjects: 370

About the author

David Fergusson, Professor of Divinity, The University of Edinburgh, Mark Elliott, Professor of Theology, The University of Glasgow and the University of Toronto (Wycliffe College)

David Fergusson is Professor of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the British Academy. His publications include The Providence of God: A Polyphonic Approach (2018) and Faith and Its Critics: A Conversation (2009).

Mark W. Elliott is Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at the University of Glasgow. Glaswegian by birth, he was further educated at Oxford, Aberdeen and Cambridge, where he wrote a PhD on The Song of Songs and Christology in the Early Church. Before Glasgow, he taught at St Andrews, Nottingham University and Liverpool Hope. His main focus is the relationship between biblical exegesis and Christian doctrine, both ancient and modern, but has a particular interest in Scottish theology in its international context.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The History of Scottish Theology, Volume III: The Long Twentieth Century; History of Scottish Theology Series
• Editors: David Fergusson, Mark Elliott
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2019
• ISBN: 0198759355, 9780198759355
• Length: 400 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Christian Theology / General; Religion / Christianity / History; Religion / Theology