Russell Newton

Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - sch: Vol 54, No 2

Scottish Church History 54.2 is now out (@scotchurchhist.bsky.social)!

Always a joy to work with Scott, our contributors, and the team at @edinburghup.bsky.social on another great issue of the journal.

www.euppublishing.com/toc/sch/54/2

There's still time to submit a paper proposal for our autumn conference on the theme of 'Church and Society'. For more information and to book tickets - www.eventbrite.com/e/schs-autum... #scothist #churchhist

Boydell Sale including "The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland" for 60% off! boydellandbrewer.com/978178327619...

Great to see my copy of the latest edition of Scottish Church History drop through the letterbox today!

I’m also working an intellectual biography of William Guild (1586-1657).

Amongst other things, Guild was Scotland’s leading typological exegete who produced one of the first typological handbooks in English, Moses Unvailed (1620).

A few years ago, I wrote an article for The Seventeenth Century on typology in early modern Scotland focused on one of the most popular biblical types called “Wielding the Brazen Serpent: The Variety and Power of Biblical Typology in Early Modern Scotland” 👇

t.co/dcMP7Utqej

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Typology Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss biblical typology.

So pleased to see that there’s going to be an In Our Time episode on Biblical Typology. I wrote my PhD on typological exegesis in early modern Scotland and I’m convinced that this is a vital strand of Reformed Protestantism that’s often ignored/misunderstood
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Featuring a wee something by me 😊 very pleased to see this in print and for it to be free to read!!

So there's lots to enjoy!

And if you're working on any era of Scottish Church History then we'd love to receive article submissions for future issues.

Scottish Church History: Vol 54, No 1

This issue also features 4 reviews including of @kmschultz24.bsky.social's 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑚, 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑆𝑐𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑃𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 and Andrew Kloes & @lauramair.bsky.social's (eds), 𝑆𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑆𝑐𝑜𝑡𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐵𝑒𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑑.

All 4 reviews are free to read: www.euppublishing.com/toc/sch/54/1

The Tell Scotland Movement’s Decision to Sponsor the 1955 All-Scotland Crusade | Scottish Church History The decision of the Tell Scotland Movement’s leadership to sponsor Billy Graham’s All-Scotland Crusade of 1955 was controversial at the time and has since been considered a turning point in Scottish church life. There was a stark contrast between the declared objectives of the Movement, which advocated local initiative and the primary role of the laity in mission, and the Crusade’s focus on a visiting American evangelist. The availability of previously unconsidered papers enables a detailed reassessment of the motives of the leadership of Tell Scotland 1952–4. The narrow base of the founding group is examined and the contrast between their far-reaching objectives and their leverage in the Church of Scotland highlighted. Their policy of growing the Movement by personal contact and not via the courts of the church is seen as contributing to their institutional weakness when the 1954 General Assembly had to rule on an invitation to Dr Graham. The roles of the key leaders, Revds W.A. Smellie, R.H.W. Falconer, T. Ralph Morton and Tom Allan are examined and the collective responsibility of the group affirmed against a tendency in historiography to focus on the positions of either Allan or George MacLeod.

And rounding out the articles is Frank D. Bargett's detailed exploration of the links between the Tell Scotland Movement and Billy Graham's crusade: "The Tell Scotland Movement’s Decision to Sponsor the 1955 All-Scotland Crusade" www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

Financing Church Network Duplication: A Case Study of Free Greyfriars’, Edinburgh | Scottish Church History This paper describes and analyses the financing arrangements underpinning the Free Church of Scotland's programme to build a duplicate national church network in the decade after the Disruption. In hi...

The second article is another brilliant study of church finances by John Sawkins: "Financing Church Network Duplication: A Case Study of Free Greyfriars’, Edinburgh" www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

‘Whether or not there be any difference between men and beasts …?’: Animals, Dominion and Natural Law in Post-Reformation Scotland | Scottish Church History Questions on the human condition, and the fragility of the boundary between human and animal, occupied the minds of early modern theologians. After 1560, when Scotland officially adopted the Reformed faith, early modern Scots were taught that Genesis recorded historical events and that Creation, and the subsequent Fall, had fixed and determined their place in the world. Understandings of what it meant to be human, and of the perceived distinction from, and relationship to, animals, were shaped by discussions of the Old Testament. The Biblical account of Creation and the Fall were by no means a unique concern amongst Reformed theologians but the renewed emphasis on the Old Testament and the concern with sin, understood through an infralapsarian lens, brought such debates into focus in the period. Through discussions of sin and corruption, humans were often portrayed as more beastly than the animals themselves, creating an apparent juxtaposition of human nature as simultaneously superior to but worse than animals. This article will examine these ideas, and their dissemination, considering the role of the Old Testament, the account of Creation and the Fall, and the belief in dominion and the natural law in post-Reformation Scotland.

This issue opens with @nicolemaceira.bsky.social's fascinating article on Animals, Dominion and Natural Law in Post-Reformation Scotland, which won the 2023 Scottish Church History Society Essay Prize and is free to read: www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

Scottish Church History: Vol 54, No 1

The latest issue of 𝑆𝑐𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝐶ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑐ℎ 𝐻𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 (@edinburghup.bsky.social) is now online!

www.euppublishing.com/toc/sch/54/1

A coup you say? 🔥💥

My new article with
@historicaljnl.bsky.social @cambridgeup.bsky.social
on John Owen, Puritan Politics, and the Fall of the Cromwellian Protectorate - bit.ly/3Xc5tae

❗Deadline tomorrow, Fri 21 Feb❗

If you would like to give a paper at REMRA's 1st multidisciplinary conference (11-13 June 2025), don't forget to send your provisional title & short abstract to remra@uhi.ac.uk by tomorrow, Fri 21 February!
bit.ly/4arhSwx. See original post ⬇️

@thinkuhi.bsky.social

CfP: This June @thinkuhi.bsky.social will be hosting the first REMRA online conference: Northern Narratives: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Early Modern
Period in the North Atlantic and Baltic.
Register your interest by 21 Feb.

When your doctoral examiners’ newish books are both on sale, how can you resist?!

A sample of the automated index from Dennis Duncan’s INDEX book, set in two columns: APPENDIX: A COMPUTER-GENERATED INDEX acquaintance, familiar, 148 acrostic form, 30 Acrosticks, 147 acrostics, 30 alphabetic, 29 Active indexes, 254 activity, 12, 58 extra-curricular, 97 Addison, 156–57, 186 hauling, 156 skewering, 157 Addison’s Book, 156 Addison’s Grand Tours, 159 Addison’s words, 156 ad hoc verbal guidepost, 255 Adjective Relative, 156 adjustment, small, 105 Adler, 203 Irene, 203 administrative apparatus, 22 admired Christopher Eccleston, 138 affectations, 30 afoot, 144, 217 Africa, 92 After-Burden, 167 afterthought, 96 Againe, 27 Agatha Christie, 39 age, 2–3, 6–7, 9, 137–38, 169–70, 186, 205, 208, 229, 232–33, 251, 254, 256 industrious, 228 old, 12 twenty-first-century, 233 age finding, 6 agent, 213 estate, 76 age of search, 51, 230, 251 age sticking, 185 aggressive coachmen, 162 Agoa, 243 Agrigento, 142 aid, 28, 30, 62, 67, 117, 191 visual, 66

A sample of the first page of the human indexer's index from Dennis Duncan’s INDEX book, set in two columns. Index Note to the gentle Reader: Page numbers in italic indicate figures. Page numbers in the form 273n1 indicate endnotes. Entries are sorted in letter-by-letter order, except where noted. This index was created by Paula Clarke Bain, who is a professional indexer and a human being. [PCB] A, a, a 77,78,79 abbreviations 38, 40, 72, 78, 79, 242 ABC Murders, The (Christie) 39 abecedaria 28, 29, 35 Abish, Walter, Alphabetical Africa 39 abstracting 4, 245, 248 accuracy 15, 64, 98, 100, 178, 252 acrostics 29, 30, 147, 311 active indexes 254 Addison, Joseph 30, 156–7, 159, 174, 186 loathes acrostics 30 portrait 154 Remarks on Several Parts of Italy 156–7 Spectator indexes 173–7 addresses to reader see introductory notes ‘Adventures of a Quire of Paper’ 171–2, 174 advertisements 42, 101, 176, 183, 186, 214, 249 Aeneid (Virgil) 39, 242, 243 Aesop's Fables 144, 146 agencies, indexing 260, 296–7n22 Age of Distraction 9, 251 Age of Enlightenment 170 Age of Industry 205-6 Age of Search 51, 233, 251 see also search Agoa, Helen S. 243 AI (Artificial Intelligence) 2, 254 aide-mémoire 66, 126 Aitken, Jonathan, goes to jail 137 Akraiphia stones 36 Aldus Manutius, Dictionarium graecum 110 Alexander of Ashby, De artificioso modo predicandi 49 Alexander the Great 30, 93 Alexandria see Library of Alexandria algorithms 100, 233, 251, 258 Alice stories (Carroll) 177–8, 180, 181 alphabet Cyrillic 45–6 Greek 29, 36, 71, 89 Hebrew 29 history of alphabets 28–30 Latin 29

More talk this week on AI vs human indexing. The book ‘INDEX, A History of the’ by @djbduncan.bsky.social has two indexes – a computer-generated one by automated software, and an index created by a human indexer (me). They are really not the same.
(See also @indexers.bsky.social and #IndexSky.)

Great history book haul this Christmas — the main challenge is deciding what to read first!

Indeed! Looking forward to reading it.

Well, look at what just dropped through the letterbox 👀 Excited to get hold of a copy Sal Cipriano’s ‘The Universities of Scotland, Ireland, and New England during the British Civil Wars: Contested Seminaries’

The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland - Boydell and Brewer A nuanced approach to the role played by clerics at a turbulent time for religious affairs.From the early percolation of Protestant thought in the sixteenth ...

Tomorrow is the last day of @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social's 60% sale, which includes The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland. Use the code BB060 boydellandbrewer.com/978178327619...

Good to be in the beautiful (and frosty) Highlands today!

Grateful to finally get a copy of @kmschultz24.bsky.social’s book today!

Chris is doing some fantastic work on the mid-seventeenth century General Assemblies & gave a beautifully textured paper today at the Scottish Church History conference about the experiential realities of being a general assembly commissioner. This will be a valuable resource as it develops 👇

The front page of the General Assemblies Wikibase instance. https://generalassemblies.wikibase.cloud

General Assembly project logo: dark blue background with the outline of a church in the centre

I've started a little open access dataset to help trace all the people who attended the General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland between 1638 and 1654:

generalassemblies.wikibase.cloud

The idea is to grow this resource over time, add visualisations, write some guides on how it was built, &c

Snowy day for the Autumn 2024 Scottish Church History Society conference

Lots of Early Modern gems here. And have a free read of my article on Catholic recusant women! www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....