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| | | Essential Reading in the Scottish Presbyterian tradition
What is essential Reading in the Scottish Presbyterian tradition? 
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| | | Where do you start?
George Gillespie's writings might be a good place. |
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| | | John Knox, especially Monstrous Regiment. |
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| | | I would start with something more 'devotional' than Knox or Gillespie. I would start with Mc Cheyne's sermons or the writings of Andrew and Horatious Bonar. They are a good springboard into the Gillespie, Rutherford, etc. writing. |
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| | | 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)
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Originally Posted by ADKing  It depends on what you are after: sermons? theology? polemics? an overview of the distinctives? | A list of key writers and their works that would include all of the above. I am aware of Dickson, Gillespie, Durham, M'Cheyne and Rutherford. But other than that.... |
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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).
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John Macleod, Scottish Theology in Relation to Church History Since the Reformation. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1974.
Three of the common intros: Macleod, Walker and MacPherson. Quote:
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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). |  |
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| | Also, if you really want to be into Scottish Presbyterian history get about anything by David Hay Fleming. His 666 page history of the Reformation in Scotland is still considered a standard I think (page length a bit of irony  ). I have three of his shorter works collected into one volume available at http://www.naphtali.com; RHB also sells it.  |
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| | Here is a Worldcat search if you are interested in seeing a quick bibliography of DHF's works. Also, a pretty comprehensive bibliography is given in his biography by Patton. Results for 'au avid Hay Fleming' [WorldCat.org] - Paton, Henry. David Hay Fleming, Historian and Antiquary. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1934.
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Originally Posted by NaphtaliPress Also, if you really want to be into Scottish Presbyterian history get about anything by David Hay Fleming. His 666 page history of the Reformation in Scotland is still considered a standard I think (page length a bit of irony ). I have three of his shorter works collected into one volume available at http://www.naphtali.com; RHB also sells it. |  Somebody tell Jack Chick...quick. |
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| | | Thomas McCrie's Story of the Scottish Church was devotional reading for me, often bringing tears to my eyes and prompting me to prayer.
Also, the history of the Free Church of Scotland arising out of the Disruption of 1843 is essential to an understanding of faithful continuing confessional Presbyterianism in Scotland.
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