The Scottish Churches and the Union Parliament 1707-1999

This important collection of essays offers what in the afterword is described as "interlocking yet often contrasting" perspectives on the interplay of the Scottish churches and parliament between the Union of 1707 and the (re-)establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999.

An examination by Colin Kidd of the attitudes of Scottish Presbyterians in the eighteenth century is followed by an assessment, by John McCaffrey, of the relationship between the Catholic community and the state over the whole period under review.

Callum Brown then addresses the thorny question of how and whether the Church of Scotland remained an Established church.

Stewart J. Brown and Donald Withrington describe how the beliefs and visions of the godly commonwealth shifted through the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The wider dimension of the Kirk's ability to influence British colonial policy is the subject of Andrew Ross's study on developments in east and central Africa. The volume closes with a reflective overview of the papers of the six contributors by Hugh McLeod.

The contributions to this volume originally took shape as lectures to the Scottish Church History Society's Jamieson conference in April 1999 in New College, Edinburgh, under the presidency of Professor Stewart J. Brown, on the theme of "The Scottish Churches and the Union Parliament, 1707-1999".

The volume is edited by James Kirk, Professor of Scottish History,

University of Glasgow