A puzzle of Presbyterian history TAGS: Christianity | Divinity | Funk | New College Library | new zealand | nineteenth-century | Pamphlets | Presbyterian | rare books | World Christianity Today the School of  Divinity welcomes Dr Hugh Morrison, a visiting Fellow from Otago, who is speaking at the World Christianity Research Seminar on “Doing religious history ‘down under:’ challenges …Continue reading →

New College Library record of Jacobite Edinburgh TAGS: Bonnie Prince Charlie | David Hume | Edinburgh | eighteenth-century | Funk | Jacobites | Pamphlets | rare books | Scotland | Special Collections On 15 September 1745 a Jacobite army was at the gates of Edinburgh. Charles Edward Stuart had arrived to attempt to regain the Scottish throne for the exiled House of …Continue reading →

New College Library welcomes the Yale-Edinburgh Conference TAGS: Divinity | Funk | Holy Spirit | missions | New College Edinburgh | New College Library | online | Pamphlets | revival | Special Collections | World Christianity The Centre for the Study of World Christianity at the University of Edinburgh is hosting the Yale-Edinburgh Group Conference on the History of the Missionary Movement and World Christianity this …Continue reading →

Treasures of New College Library : the Pamphlets Collection TAGS: Church of Scotland | Funk | New College Library | Pamphlets | research | Special Collections  “… but that religious pamphlets, especially if they had a shade of allegory in them,  were the very rage of the day.”[1] In the days before radio, television and instant …Continue reading →