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The Chair of Verity - Political preaching and pulpit censure in eighteenth-century Scotland (Paperback)
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The Chair of Verity - Political preaching and pulpit censure in eighteenth-century Scotland (Paperback)
Series: Perspectives: Scottish Studies of the Long Eightee
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Expanding a hypothesis the author first developed in his earlier
publications, this is an examination not merely of the extent to
which ministers of the Church of Scotland, depending on their
factional loyalties, sharply differed in the messages they sought
to convey to their own congregations (and through the medium of
print to the wider world) on a wide spectrum of contemporary
issues, but also of how their own personalities impacted on their
sermons, often revealing their innate political as well as their
theological leanings. In a wide-ranging and thoughtful
Introduction, Crawford argues that politics and the pulpit have
been inter-dependent from the middle ages - but more especially
since the Reformation when political preaching became synonymous
with the preaching of men like Luther, Calvin and, in Scotland,
Knox. Subsequent chapters analyse key Enlightenment issues
including the stance of the Kirk - and of individual ministers - on
patronage, the stage, heresy, political reform, patriotism,
America, popery and slavery, as articulated from the chair of
verity. Additionally, and unusually in an Enlightenment historian,
the author is able to deploy an impressive understanding of legal
history in order to extend the scope of his study, specifically to
cover the related (but imperfectly understood) issue of pulpit
censure.
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