Revival of Evangelicalism Mission and Piety in the Victorian Church of Scotland
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Andrew Michael Jones completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2018 and is currently an Assistant Professor of History at Reinhardt University near Atlanta, Georgia. His research focuses on religion, identity and race in modern Scotland and the Scottish diaspora.Jones has written a valuable new book that reveals the vitality of evangelicalism within the Church of Scotland (CofS) in the period after the division with the Free Church of Scotland in 1843. Jones has written an outstanding book that deserves a wide readership. This book takes its place as a fascinating and outstanding study of how evangelical departure from the CofS actually led to new evangelical growth and intensity within the older national church.
- Jeffrey McDonald, Fides et Historia
Here Andrew Jones explains lucidly how and why the Church of Scotland emerged from the adversity of the Disruption to become the dominant Presbyterian denomination in Scotland by the end of the nineteenth century. He shows that many Evangelicals, far from deserting the church, threw their energy into its revival.
- David Bebbington, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Stirling,
[Jones] has made an invaluable contribution to knowledge by highlighting the influence of Muir, MacLeod, and Charteris upon the recovery of the Church of Scotland in the second half of the nineteenth century.
- Ken Jeffrey, University of Aberdeen, Scottish Church History
this detailed book convincingly disputes any tendency to assume that Evangelicalism declined in significance in the post-Disruption Church of Scotland after the departure of many leading Evangelicals for the Free Church ... In doing so, it opens new avenues for research, encouraging further reflection on the changing party dynamics and concerns of the post-Disruption Church of Scotland and its diverse members.
- Felicity Loughlin, University of Edinburgh, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History
adds important substance to our understanding of evangelicalism, complicating and challenging the ecclesiastical scene in Scotland. In light of Jones’s research, the “Aulk kirk” emerges as a more diverse, hardy, and vibrant institution, challenging traditional perceptions of the Disruption’s impact and legacy.
- Laura M. Mair, University of Aberdeen, Church History