TY  - BOOK
AU  - John D. Clayton
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781433181153
TI  - The Curious Conversion of Thomas Chalmers
DO  - 10.3726/b17860
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1059160
N2  - Thomas Chalmers was arguably the most popular Scot and influential churchman of his age. However, when he was first educated, ordained, installed, and serving as a parish minister in the Church of Scotland, he was by his own admission not yet a converted Christian. How could a minister of the gospel not believe the gospel? How this happened is telling of his context, country, and church, but it is not a short story. From a confusion of church and state dating back to the Scottish Reformation to an increasing secularism in and through the Scottish Enlightenment, the Church of Scotland moved increasingly away from its Reformation roots and the necessity of the gospel in Christian conversion, as evidenced in the early life of Thomas Chalmers.
LA  - English
ER  -