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Originally Posted by ADKing  It depends on what you are after: sermons? theology? polemics? an overview of the distinctives?
A very helpful volume, if you can get it these days is "The Dictonary of Scottish Church History and Theology" edited by David Wright, David Lachman and Donald Meek. It is not something you read through but it is invaluable for understanding the tradition (and its offshoots) |
Very true. Use the DSCH&T in conjunction with reputable introductory or survey studies of the Scottish theologians.
The following come to mind which are either broader or more narrow in focus:
John MacPherson,
The doctrine of the Church in Scottish theology (Chalmers lectures). Edinburgh: Macniven & Wallace, 1903.
James Walker,
The Theology And Theologians Of Scotland (Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1888; Rpt. Edinburgh : Knox Press, 1982).
Other works that have built on the "fathers" such as Bannerman's
Church of Christ (rpt. Banner of Truth Trust, 1960) are also good works to discover and jump into the original works referenced. Or you can use works on particular men in the same way such as John Coffey's
Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions The Mind of Samuel Rutherford. Cambridge studies in early modern British history (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1997) and W. D. J. McKay's
An Ecclesiastical Republic: Church Government in the Writings of George Gillespie (Carlisle, Cumbria, U.K.: Published for Rutherford House by Paternoster Press, 1997).