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Excerpted from “The Influence, Direct and Indirect, of the Writings of Erskine of Linlathen on Religious Thought in Scotland,” the doctoral thesis of Robert A. Reid, University of Edinburgh, 1930. An earlier edition of this work had been much criticized. It was asserted there were evidences of confused arrangement, the logic was at fault, and…
From the doctoral thesis of Robert A. Reid, University of Edinburgh, 1930: An Appreciation of the Spiritual Order and Other Papers by Thomas Erskine, Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, 1871. Erskine’s Spiritual Order puts into definite terms a subject which had occupied his mind from the earliest days of his religious studies. That subject was the…
“[Thomas] Erskine presents a fascinating theological figure, and one whose stature and influence within the stream of British theology in the nineteenth century is too rarely appreciated. . . . [He was] above all a ‘biblical’ theologian, one whose reflection is shaped by close engagement with the stories and theologies of the Old and New…
“Introduction to Thomas Erskine (1788-1870)” can also be read by clicking the “Read Sample” button for The Unconditional Freeness of the Gospel: In Three Essays. Annotated Edition on Amazon’s website.