Dissent After Disruption
Church and State in Scotland, 1843-63
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:16th Jun '21
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The Disruption of the Church of Scotland was one of the most important events in Victorian Britain and had a profound and lasting impact on Scottish religion, politics and society. This book provides the first detailed account of the two major non-established Presbyterian denominations in the two decades after 1843, which together accounted for roughly half of Scotland’s churchgoers: the Free Church, formed by those who left the Established Church at the Disruption, and the United Presbyterian Church, a consolidation of the various secessions of the previous century. It explores how the relationship between these churches developed from the bitter feuds over the church-state connection prior to the Disruption to co-operation in the major ecclesiastical, political, and social matters of the day, paving the way to negotiations for merger commencing in 1863. The period between 1843 and 1863 redefined conceptions of what it meant to be Presbyterian and Scottish. By examining a key transitional period in Scottish history, this monograph charts how definitions of Presbyterianism, the Kirk, and dissent evolved as Scotland’s national religion slowly moved from the divisions of the previous century towards eventual reunion in 1929.
This new study is a vitally important historiographical intervention, providing as it does the first detailed account of Scottish Presbyterian dissent in the wake of the Disruption. [Ryan Mallon has] produced a landmark text that will hopefully prove foundational for future studies of late modern Scottish religious culture. -- Neil McIntyre * Journal of Church and State *
Mallon’s perceptive research makes Dissent After Disruption: Church and State in Scotland, 1843–63 a welcome addition to the historiography of the post-Disruption period and compulsory reading for anyone interested in the evolution of Presbyterians in Scotland. -- David Dutton * Scottish Church History *
This welcome addition to the historiography of post-Disruption Scotland by a young scholar has brought attention to bear on how the fissiparous history of Scottish Presbyterianism continued as much after the Disruption as it had in the century beforehand. Ryan Mallon does this in an important study of not just the Free Church, but also of the United Presbyterian Church (UPC). It is a correction to what is perhaps too often a binary history of nineteenth-century Scottish Presbyterianism into Established and Free Churches. -- Rowan Strong * The Journal of Ecclesiastical History *
There is much to be admired in Mallon’s study of Presbyterian dissent during the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign... the writing is stylistically superb, balancing detailed analysis with summative assessment and punctuated by enjoyably pithy turns of phrase. Historically, the work both significantly advances the field of Victorian Scottish religious history and powerfully shows how religious institutions and ideas interacted with and shaped all aspects of Scottish life. -- Andrew Michael Jones, Reinhardt University * Victorian Studies *
ISBN: 9781474482790
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320 pages