Social Christianity in Scotland and Beyond, 1800-2000
Essays in Honour of Stewart J. Brown
Social Christianity in Scotland and Beyond, 1800-2000
Essays in Honour of Stewart J. Brown
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Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781399515900
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 31/01/2026
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
Social Christianity in Scotland and Beyond explores the multifarious initiatives known variously as ‘social Christianity’, ‘Christian socialism’, or the ‘social gospel’, that spanned countries, continents, decades, and denominations. Building on the scholarship of Stewart J. Brown, to whom this volume is dedicated, fourteen leading and emerging scholars of the history of Christianity consider the varying social policies and initiatives that Christians have pursued in response to industrialisation, urbanisation, expanding global trade networks, and nascent democratic politics.
With a particular focus on religious communities in Scotland, the essays provide comparative lenses with which to view sociological and theological developments through examinations of similar phenomena in England, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States. In adopting an international perspective that extends beyond Britain and the US, this volume encourages a more holistic understanding of social Christianity as part of a multifaceted and fluid belief system that evolved and shifted according to context.
Foreword - David Fergusson
About the Authors
Introduction, by Andrew Kloes and Laura M. Mair
Chapter 1: The Social Concerns of Brunswick Wesleyan Chapel, Leeds, in the Victorian Era - David Bebbington
Chapter 2: Navigating Cultural Pluralism: Christian Responses to Radical Unbelief in Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland - Felicity Loughlin
Chapter 3: Wrestling with Dilemmas: Presbyterian Evangelism and Slavery in the American Ante-Bellum South - Iain Whyte
Chapter 4: Awakened Protestants’ calls for ‘Christian socialism’ and ‘Christian communism’ in Germany, 1844-1850 - Andrew Kloes
Chapter 5: James Baird and the Baird Trust: Industrial Philanthropy and Evangelical Activism in Victorian Scotland - Andrew Michael Jones
Chapter 6: In Person, Print, and Prayer: The Shared Mission of Scottish and English Ragged Schools in the Nineteenth Century - Laura M. Mair
Chapter 7: Mary Magdalene and the ‘Fallen’ Sisters: the Social Gospel of the Magdalene Asylums in Scotland - Jowita A. Thor
Chapter 8: ‘Standing in the Gap’: D. L. Moody & Evangelical Social Christianity in Chicago and Scotland, 1860-1900 - Thomas Breimaier
Chapter 9: ‘The Saving of the Body’: Sport at Church in England since 1850 - Hugh McLeod
Chapter 10: Henry Scott Holland and Social Christianity in the English fin de siècle - Frances Knight
Chapter 11: ‘Indignation would arise within you’: Herman Bavinck on Racial Injustice in Europe and North America - James Eglinton
Chapter 12: ‘Woodbine Willie’ and the Quest for a Social Christianity after the First World War - Timothy Larsen
Chapter 13: Billy Graham, the All Scotland Crusade of 1955 and the Social Gospel - Kenneth Jeffrey
Chapter 14: Social Christianity on the Mission Field: Shifting Patterns in British and American Protestant Globalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Brian Stanley
Bibliography of Stewart J. Brown
