Presbyterian Church

JSM 's father was Scottish and brought up as a Presbyterian . He later rejected his religious training for Utilitarianism.

At the Presbyterian religious gathering later called the communion of [or at] Shotts,EM retired to pray privately in the bed (a curtained alcove), but then consented to pray aloud, while thousands gathered...

John Welsh was imprisoned in Blackness Castle (across the River Forth from Rosyth) in connection with the abortive Church of Scotland General Assembly at Aberdeen. EM wrote for him in prison A Sonnet Sent...

EM was a staunch Scottish Presbyterian whose surviving poems and letters almost all relate to the efforts of James the Sixth and First to impose episcopacy and other changes on the Kirk. Their religious content...

EM was an upper-class Scotswoman who was born into the Church of Scotland and remained a fervent and radical member of it. She is presumed to have undergone a conversion experience within this church, and...

While the Scottish parliament, meeting at Edinburgh in summer 1621, sought to wrench control of the Scottish Church from its radical wing, anti-episcopal Presbyterian ministers gathered at nearby Sheens to await the result. There EM

These two editions (both in English) witness the continuing importance of the text to Presbyterians . The same century saw a total of seven reprints, with two in the early eighteenth century. The poem was...

OM 's family was lower-middle-class. (The Braybrookes' biography remarks that having come from this narrowest, most prejudiced class in England . . . . she had successfully declassed herself.) Her father was English...

Brought up a Presbyterian , SM was received into the Anglo-Catholic church in 1972 (the year of her marriage and of her husband's appointment as a parish priest) and later became a Roman Catholic .

SM came from the Scottish middle class, though her father sometimes worked at manual jobs while she was growing up. She says she was brought up with quite liberal values but with a Presbyterian moral...

AMM was a Presbyterian like her parents (both Scottish born). Her moral outlook was inflected by liberal Christianity, and she actively supported Presbyterian missions in India. She was strongly influenced by the Social Gospel movement...

A Scotswoman whose parents both came from industrial Lanarkshire, Lochhead describes her family as posh working class—my father wore a shirt and tie to work but he'd never have described himself as middle class...

AL was Presbyterian but also studied Hinduism and Buddhism. She believed that she was too good a Christian not to be something of a Buddhist, and too good a Buddhist not to be something...

From childhood SKS was fervently religious. Her parents were Anglicans (though her mother had been brought up a Presbyterian ). She was attracted to the idea of self-sacrifice, though not to the obedience and...

As a member of the Council of State (instituted after the king 's death as chief executive body) John Hutchinson found himself with power over his old opposites and enemies of . . . the...