The National Covenant in Scotland, 1638-1689

The National Covenant in Scotland, 1638-1689
Author: Chris R. Langley
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 1783275308

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What did it mean to be a Covenanter?

A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland, c.1525–1638

A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland, c.1525–1638
Author: Ian Hazlett
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 796
Release: 2021-12-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004335951

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A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland deals with the making, shaping, and development of the Scottish Reformation. 28 authors offer new analyses of various features of a religious revolution and select personalities in evolving theological, cultural, and political contexts.

Protestantism, Revolution and Scottish Political Thought

Protestantism, Revolution and Scottish Political Thought
Author: Karie Schultz
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2024-05-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1474493149

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During the Scottish Revolution (1637-1651), royalists and Covenanters appealed to Scottish law, custom and traditional views on kingship to debate the limits of King Charles I's authority. But they also engaged with the political ideas of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Protestant and Catholic intellectuals beyond the British Isles. This book explores the under-examined European context for Scottish political thought by analysing how royalists and Covenanters adapted Lutheran, Calvinist, and Catholic political ideas to their own debates about church and state. In doing so, it argues that Scots advanced languages of political legitimacy to help solve a crisis about the doctrines, ceremonies and polity of their national church. It therefore reinserts the importance of ecclesiology to the development of early modern political theory.

The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland

The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland
Author: Michelle D. Brock
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2021
Genre: Clergy
ISBN: 1783276193

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A nuanced approach to the role played by clerics at a turbulent time for religious affairs.

The National Covenant and the Solemn League and Covenant, 1660-1696

The National Covenant and the Solemn League and Covenant, 1660-1696
Author: James Walters
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2022
Genre: History
ISBN: 1783276045

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Examines how the form and function of the Covenants were shorn of religious implications and repurposed, serving a pluralistic vision of the role of religion in politics and public life. Until now, scholarship on the Covenants has mainly focussed on their role in the conflicts of the 1640s, with discussion of the Covenants after 1660 mostly limited to the context of violent Scottish radicalism. This book moves beyond a rigid focus on Scotland to explore the legacy of the Covenants in England. It examines the discourse surrounding key events in the Restoration period and traces the influence of the Covenants in the context of radical Presbyterianism, and in mainstream debates around politics, church government, and the constitution of the British kingdoms. The Covenants continued to have relevance in two primary respects. Firstly, the Covenants were used as reference points for discussing the competing legacies of the English and Scottish Reformations and the confused issues of church and state that defined the Restoration period. Furthermore, the form of the Covenants as solemn individual subscriptions to a constitutional and religious model, and the political ideas that underpinned them, were emulated by those seeking to resist royal authority during the Exclusion Crisis of 1679-81, and during the events surrounding the Revolution of 1688. Thus, this book holds particular interest for students of constitutionalism, legal pluralism or civil religion in seventeenth-century Britain, and for those seeking to deepen their understanding of the intellectual origins of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and the Revolution of 1688-9.

Exploring Emotion in Reformation Scotland

Exploring Emotion in Reformation Scotland
Author: John McCallum
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2022-11-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 3031157370

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This book investigates emotion in early modern Scotland, and provides the first exploration of a Scottish individual’s life and writing in light of the recent major advances in the study of emotion. It does this through the example of James Melville, a minister in the Reformed Protestant Church, whose autobiographical writing provides one of the earliest and fullest opportunities to explore the emotional world and range of experiences of an individual, offering the chance for a more rounded analysis of emotional experiences and language than has ever been offered for Scotland at the time. This book contributes a crucial new geographical and cultural context to the expanding world of the history of emotions in the early modern period.

The Scottish National Covenant, February 27, 1638

The Scottish National Covenant, February 27, 1638
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 16
Release: 1896
Genre: Church and state
ISBN:

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A solemn agreement inaugurated by Scottish churchmen, in the Greyfriars' churchyard, Edinburgh. It rejected the attempt by King Charles I and William Laud, archbishop of Canterbury, to force the Scottish presbyterian system to conform to English liturgical practice and church governance. The National Covenant was composed of the King's Confession (1581), additional statements by Alexander Henderson (a leader in the Church of Scotland), and an oath. The covenant reaffirmed Reformed faith and Presbyterian discipline and denounced the attempted changes, but it also urged loyalty to the king. It was signed by many Scotsmen.