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The Apologetics of Thomas Chalmers: The influences, methods, and effects of chalmers’ rebuttals to objections to christianity
Scholarly investigations of the works of Dr. Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847) primarily focus on his pastoral ministry and role in the formation of the Free Church of Scotland, passing over his apologetic and theological endeavours. Consequently, the contents and methodologies of Chalmers’ arguments …
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Time for favour: Scottish missions to the Jews, 1838-1852
… Church of Scotland. John Roxborogh’s 1999 study Thomas Chalmers: Enthusiast for Mission curiously neglects Chalmers’ enthusiasm for missions to the Jews. Both authors are challenged by a fresh evaluation of original sources: Roxborogh in chapter two and Chambers in chapter seven. The period …
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'A Machinery for the moral elevation of a town population': Church Extension in Glasgow, 1800-1843
… is drawn to the key influence of the Reverend Thomas Chalmers in the creation and application this model. Finally, the impacts that this was designed to have upon the city are considered, and used as a means of gaining insight into the shape of society sought by proponents of church extension. …
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Adaptations of the Beautiful: Natural Theological Aesthetics from Paley to Darwin
The goal of this thesis is to reassess our understanding of Charles Darwin’s theory of beauty by tracing the history of a distinctive aesthetic philosophy within the British natural theological tradition. I propose two new critical concepts as a way of characterising the common features of this …