Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction
- PART I CHRISTIANITY AND MODERNITY
- PART II THE CHURCHES AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES
- 14 Catholic Christianity in France from the Restoration to the separation of church and state, 1815–1905
- 15 Italy: the church and the Risorgimento
- 16 Catholicism, Ireland and the Irish diaspora
- 17 Catholic nationalism in Greater Hungary and Poland
- 18 Christianity and the creation of Germany
- 19 Anglicanism, Presbyterianism and the religious identities of the United Kingdom
- 20 Protestant dominance and confessional politics: Switzerland and the Netherlands
- 21 Scandinavia: Lutheranism and national identity
- 22 ‘Christian America’ and ‘Christian Canada’
- 23 Spain and Portugal: the challenge to the church
- 24 Latin America: the church and national independence
- 25 Between east and west: the Eastern Catholic (‘Uniate’) churches
- PART III THE EXPANSION OF CHRISTIANITY
- Select General Bibliography
- Chapter Bibliography
- Index
- References
19 - Anglicanism, Presbyterianism and the religious identities of the United Kingdom
from PART II - THE CHURCHES AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
By
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction
- PART I CHRISTIANITY AND MODERNITY
- PART II THE CHURCHES AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES
- 14 Catholic Christianity in France from the Restoration to the separation of church and state, 1815–1905
- 15 Italy: the church and the Risorgimento
- 16 Catholicism, Ireland and the Irish diaspora
- 17 Catholic nationalism in Greater Hungary and Poland
- 18 Christianity and the creation of Germany
- 19 Anglicanism, Presbyterianism and the religious identities of the United Kingdom
- 20 Protestant dominance and confessional politics: Switzerland and the Netherlands
- 21 Scandinavia: Lutheranism and national identity
- 22 ‘Christian America’ and ‘Christian Canada’
- 23 Spain and Portugal: the challenge to the church
- 24 Latin America: the church and national independence
- 25 Between east and west: the Eastern Catholic (‘Uniate’) churches
- PART III THE EXPANSION OF CHRISTIANITY
- Select General Bibliography
- Chapter Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
On 21 July 1815 a large crowd assembled to witness the admission of a celebrated new parish minister to the charge of the Tron Church in the centre of Glasgow. Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847) was already one of the leading figures in the evangelical party in the Church of Scotland and was destined to play a central role in events and movements that had a profound impact on religious life and identities, in Scotland above all, but also throughout the United Kingdom. Chalmers’s move to Glasgow in the month after Waterloo symbolises and illustrates, moreover, the great challenge of rapid urban growth facing both the Church of Scotland and the Church of England in 1815. His previous parish, Kilmany in Fife, was rural and predominantly agricultural with a declining population, amounting to only 787 in 1811. In such an environment it remained relatively easy for an energetic pastor like Chalmers to develop a ministry that brought him and the Church of Scotland into meaningful contact with all his parishioners. Glasgow on the other hand had tripled in population – from 40,000 to over 120,000 – during Chalmers’s own lifetime, and his own parish had a population of approximately 11,000, many of them Dissenters from the national church, and many others lacking any contact with organised Christianity. Such was Chalmers s concern at these unchurched multitudes that in November 1817 he turned a memorial sermon on the tragically early death of the king’s granddaughter, Princess Charlotte, into an appeal for efforts to bring this enormous physical strength under the controul of Christian and humanized principle’.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Cambridge History of Christianity , pp. 301 - 322Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005
References
, The Church of Ireland: ecclesiastical reform and revolution, 1800–1885 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971).Google Scholar
, Ritualism and politics in Victorian Britain: the attempt to legislate for belief (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978).Google Scholar
, Temporal pillars: Queen Anne’s bounty, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and the Church of England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964).Google Scholar
, The Protestant crusade in Ireland, 1800–70: a study of Protestant Catholic relations between the Act of Union and disestablishment (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1978).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, Liberal Anglican politics: Whiggery, religion and reform 1830–1841 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987).Google Scholar
, Ulster Presbyterianism: thehistoricalperspective 1610–1970 (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1987).Google Scholar
, ‘The myth of the established Church of Scotland’, in (ed.), The Scottish churches and the Union Parliament 1707–1999 (Edinburgh: Scottish Church History Society, 2001).Google Scholar
, ‘In pursuit of a Welsh episcopate’, in (ed.), Religion and national identity: Wales and Scotland c. 1700–2000 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2001).Google Scholar
, The national churches of England, Ireland, and Scotland 1801–1846 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, Thomas Chalmers and the godly commonwealth in Scotland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982).Google Scholar
, The diocesan revival in the Church of England c.1800–1870 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, ‘The context, performance and meaning of ritual: the British monarchy and the “invention of tradition”, c. 1820–1977’, in and (eds.), The invention of tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).Google Scholar
(ed. ), ‘Church parties’, in (ed.), From Cranmerto Davidson: a miscellany (Woodbridge: Boydell/Church of England Record Society, 1999).Google Scholar
, An Anglican aristocracy: the moral economy of the landed estate in Carmarthenshire 1832–1895 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, and , Churches and churchgoers: patterns of church growth in the British Isles since 1700 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977).Google Scholar
T Religion in the industrial revolution of South Wales (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1965).Google Scholar
A new history of Wales: religion and society in the nineteenth century (Llandybïe: Christopher Davies, 1981).Google Scholar
, The Liberal Anglican idea of history (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, Reaction and reconstruction in English politics 1832–1852 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965).Google Scholar
, Religion and society in industrial England: chapel and social change, 1740–1914 (London: Longman, 1976).Google Scholar
, Religion and society in industrial England: church, chapel and social change 1740–1914 (London: Longman, 1976).Google Scholar
, ‘John Keble and the Victorian churching of Romanticism’, in (ed), An infinite complexity: essays in Romanticism (Durham: University of Durham Commemoration Series, 1982).Google Scholar
, ‘Mid-century Scottish nationalism: romantic and radical’, in (ed.), Ideas and institutions of Victorian Britain: essays in honour of George Kitson Clark (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1967).Google Scholar
, Religion and political culture in Britain and Ireland from the Glorious Revolution to the decline of empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , Evangelical Protestantism in Ulster society 1740–1890 (London: Routledge, 1992).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, Politics and the churches in Great Britain 1832 to 1868 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977).Google Scholar
, The Victorian churchin decline: Archbishop Tait and the Church of England, 1868–1882 (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969).Google Scholar
, The first industrial nation: an economic history of Britain 1700–1914 (London: Methuen, 1969).Google Scholar
, ‘From a death to a view: the hunt for the Welsh past in the romantic period’, in and (eds.), The invention of tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).Google Scholar
, and (eds.), Religion in Victorian Britain, 5 vols. (Manchester: Open University/Manchester University Press, 1988, 1997).Google Scholar
, Thomas Chalmers: enthusiast for mission: the Christian good of Scotland and the rise of the missionary movement (Carlisle: Paternoster, 1999).Google Scholar
, The Ulster crisis: resistance to Home Rule, 1912–14 (London: Faber and Faber, 1967).Google Scholar
, ‘National occasions at St Paul’s since 1800’, in , and (eds.), St Paul’s: the cathedral church of London 604–2004 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004).Google Scholar
, God and greater Britain: religion and national life in Britain and Ireland 1843–1945 (London: Routledge, 1994).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, Great deaths: grieving, religion and nationhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain (Oxford: British Academy/Oxford University Press, 2000).Google Scholar
, The Protestant crusade in Great Britain 1829–1860 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, The Protestant crusade in Great Britain 1829–1860 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and (eds.), English historical documents 1833–1874 (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1956).Google Scholar