The Scottish Communion Season

What should preparation for the Lord’s Supper look like? Learning from others how they prepare for communion can be of help. This article describes how the Scottish Reformed prepare, from Thursday to Tuesday of the preparation days, emphasising the need for humiliation, examination, preparation, commemoration, thanksgiving, and revival.

Revival, Enlightenment, Civic Humanism, and the Development of Dogma: Scotland and America, 1735-1843

This essay examines the contrast in Scottish and American church history from the 1730s to the 1840s, and focuses on the difference in theological development. The author argues that the study of the relationship between formal religious thought and its social, political, and intellectual contexts shows why theology developed differently in the two regions during this period.