Below are some extracts from a delightful volume by the Rev. Norman Macleod, Reminiscences of a Highland Parish (1867), providing some very romantic glimpses of the ‘auld parish way’ in the Highlands of Scotland. One can find it on GoogleBooks – http://books.google.com/books?id=DCokAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Reminiscences+of+a+Highland+Parish. Two chapters in particular are of interest, from which these quotes come – [...]
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Reminiscences of a Highland Parish (1867)
Posted in The Manse, Vignettes from the Old Parish Way on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Settled Ministry & Itinerancy
Posted in Parish Theory & Practice on June 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It does seem that parish ministry and itinerancy as models of Christianization are quite distinct from each other. The first emphasizes a ‘settled’ ministry with a pastor or pastors within a fixed geographic locale, drawing the unconverted within that charge to the sound of the Gospel call – and so into the regular worship services [...]
The [not so] Frozen Chosen
Posted in Benevolence & the Diaconate on June 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Shaw, Iain. High Calvinists in Action: Calvinism and the City, Manchester and London, c. 1810-1860. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Do the theological rigor, precision, and dogmatism of Calvinism inhibit evangelistic and benevolent efforts? Perhaps individual cases here and there may be pointed out in defense of this caricature. But in High Calvinists in Action, [...]
