The Kirk and the Kingdom: A Century of Tension in Scottish Social Theology 1830–1929
The Kirk and the Kingdom: A Century of Tension in Scottish Social Theology 1830–1929
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Abstract
This book questions the widely accepted assumption that throughout most of the nineteenth century the Church in Scotland failed both in pronouncement and in practice to take seriously the social conditions of an increasingly urbanised society. It traces the social theology which developed in the century from 1830 until 1929 by examining the views of leading churchmen such as Robert Burns of Paisley, Robert Buchanan in Glasgow, and argues that until the theologian Robert Flint published his book Christ's Kingdom upon Earth in 1860, the church had no model other than palliative pastoral care through which to respond to the urban crisis. Flint enabled the Church to see itself as a partner with secular agencies and political action in creating conditions which brought closer the Kingdom of God on earth. The practical outcome of this paradigm shift in Scottish theology in the west of Scotland was active engagement with urban housing conditions and proposals for reform. The optimism of at the beginning of the nineteenth century however gave way to regarding the Church's numerical strength and membership as more important. The needs of the movement to unite fractured Presbyterianism, accomplished by the union of the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church in 1929, took priority over social theology and engagement.
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Signs and Signals: The Stirrings of Social Criticism
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From Church to Kingdom: Robert Flint's New Model for the Church's Engagement with Society
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The Church and Housing: Robert Flint's Social Theology put into Practice
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Divisions in the Kingdom: The Extremes of Social Theology
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The House Divided Against Itself: The Kingdom of God in the Context of Debate
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Full Circle: Social Theology and Criticism in the Inter-War Years
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End Matter
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