Survey of Scottish Church History: Columba to the Disruption
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An orientation to the Church of Scotland from the Reformation to 1843: Knox, the Covenants, the Westminster Assembly, the Secession and the Disruption. It sets out the vocabulary used in every later course: kirk session, presbytery, General Assembly, covenant and the establishment principle.
These lists, taken from the school's verified research, are studied on your own at your own pace. The school's own classes, written as full teaching, open one at a time.
How to begin
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- Open the first class, lecture or reading and follow the order of the syllabus.
- Mark each lecture, reading and assignment complete when you finish it.
- Choose a weekly study goal to see when you will finish.
Syllabus
Unit 1 · Columba and the Celtic Church (to 1560)
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1. Reading Columba's mission from Iona (563-597), the church of the Picts and Scots, and how the Celtic church was drawn into the Roman system before the Reformation. Students read Adomnan's Life of Columba as a historical source and weigh what the Free Church historians made of the Culdees. Read the documents of this unit.
- Adomnan, Life of Saint Columba (Vita Columbae, c. 700), English translation ed. William Reeves Reeves/Skene translation, Historians of Scotland vol. VI (Edinburgh 1874), 589 scanned pages Wentworth Huyshe translation (1905) Open source History c. 700 (ed. 1874)