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The Curious Conversion of Thomas Chalmers
About this book
Thomas Chalmers was arguably the most popular Scot and influential churchman of his age. However, when he was first educated, ordained, installed, and serving as a parish minister in the Church of Scotland, he was by his own admission not yet a converted Christian. How could a minister of the gospel not believe the gospel? How this happened is telling of his context, country, and church, but it is not a short story. From a confusion of church and state dating back to the Scottish Reformation to an increasing secularism in and through the Scottish Enlightenment, the Church of Scotland moved increasingly away from its Reformation roots and the necessity of the gospel in Christian conversion, as evidenced in the early life of Thomas Chalmers.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One: An Unexpected Conversion
- Chapter Two: The Scottish Church and State in Historical Context
- Chapter Three: A Divine Right
- Chapter Four: Blasphemous Crime and Capital Punishment
- Chapter Five: Telling Trials in the Kirk
- Chapter Six: Midnight in the Kirk
- Chapter Seven: The Rise of Moderatism
- Chapter Eight: Moderate Ministers
- Chapter Nine: An Evangelical Spark
- Chapter Ten: Revival in the Kirk
- Chapter Eleven: Disruption in the Kirk
- Appendix One:The Westminster Assembly and the Confusion of Church and State
- Appendix Two: The Influential Doctrine of George Gillespie and Samuel Rutherford
- Appendix Three: Patronage in Scotland
- Appendix Four: Natural Religion and the Scottish Enlightenment
- Appendix Five: The Marrow’s Four Points of Divergence from the Kirk
- Appendix Six: The Secession of 1733
- Appendix Seven: Revival in the Parishes of Early 19th Century Scotland
- Bibliography