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The Second Disruption: The Free Church in Victorian Scotland and the Origins of the Free Presbyterian Church (Scottish Historical Review Monograph)
 
 
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The Second Disruption: The Free Church in Victorian Scotland and the Origins of the Free Presbyterian Church (Scottish Historical Review Monograph) (Paperback)

by James Lachlan MacLeod (Author)
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  • Paperback: 278 pages
  • Publisher: Tuckwell Press Ltd (1 Dec 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1862320977
  • ISBN-13: 978-1862320970
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.6 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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The Victorian period in Scotland was remarkable, with rapid changes and immense wealth coexisting alongside entrenched conservatism and great poverty. For the churches also, the Victorian period was a time of transformation - with every assumption being challenged and tested. In this context it is not surprising that some churches fragmented, and the Free Church was one of them. Founded at the Disruption of 1843, the Free Church was to be one of the dominant forces in Victorian Scotland, and yet even as it exercised this power it began to unravel. Fifty years after its birth, the Free Church experienced its own disruption. Thousands of people, mostly Gaelic-speaking highlanders, deserted the Free Church to form the Free Presbyterian Church in 1893. This book analyzes the events leading up to the Second Disruption. The author places this event in its ecclesiastical context, arguing that the Second Disruption was a product of the Liberalization of attitudes towards the creed and theology in the Free Church. He also argues that the split of 1893 was a result of the fundamental divided in Scottish society between highlands and lowlands, and that the fashionable pseudo-science of race played an important role in forming opinions among significant sections of the lowland Free Church.
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5.0 out of 5 stars excellent study of a neglected area of Scottish history, 5 Feb 2001
James MacLeod has written a well-researched and balanced account of the origins of the FP Church and of the nature of presbyterian Scottish church politics in the 19th century. He utilises a vast range of sources to offer varied perspectives on the issue and his use of primary sources, many unseen before, gives a very human angle on the personalities involved, previously only deified or demonised in presbyterian culture.

The disruption - or secession (words are very loaded in this sphere) - becomes almost inevitable as MacLeod builds his case. Inevitable, too, is the bitterness and sectarian intransigence which prevents any form of later union amongst apparently sincere Christian sharing so much in common.

Free Presbyterians are one of the few minority groups who can be ridiculed and abused with impunity even in the politically correct media and James MacLeod's soundly-based book is a long-overdue antidote to myth and stereotype.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent summary of 19th century Presbyterian Scotland, 17 Dec 2000
By iaind@freeuk.com (Isle of Lewis, Scotland, UK) - See all my reviews
James Macleod has covered a lot of ground in this volume. He has shown how the main changes in Scottish church life in the nineteenth century - the growth of Roman Catholicism, the decline of Sabbatarianism - together with a Highland/Lowland divide, all succeeded to produce what he calls a Second Disruption of the Scottish Church. Although I would not describe the Free Presbyterian Secession of 1893 in this way, Macleod has demonstrated that the men who formed the FP Church were very much the product of their (Highland) times, and that in some ways the split that took place within the late-19th century Free Church was inevitable. This will be invaluable reading for students of the period.
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