New PDF release: Riots, Revolutions, and the Scottish Covenanters: The Work

Coauthor of the well-known Scottish nationwide Covenant, moderator of the Glasgow common meeting that confounded King Charles I, and member of the Westminster meeting, Alexander Henderson (1583–1646) led Scotland throughout the tumultuous interval of the British Revolutions. He encouraged Scotland as a Covenanter, preacher, presbyterian, and pamphleteer and earned a huge position within the nation’s historical past. regardless of his quite a few accomplishments, no smooth biography of Henderson exists.

In 'Riots, Revolutions, and the Scottish Covenanters', L. Charles Jackson corrects this omission. He avoids the extremes of casting Henderson as a forerunner to liberty or as a theological tyrant and as a substitute areas his activities of their ancient environment, proposing this crucial chief as he observed himself: essentially a minister of the gospel who was once suffering to reside faithfully as he understood it. utilizing missed and, every so often, new resources, Jackson reassesses the function of faith in early smooth Scotland as mirrored within the lifetime of Alexander Henderson.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Preparation
The Covenanter
The Preacher
The Presbyterian
The Pamphleteer
The cave in of the Cause

Author:
L. Charles Jackson (PhD, college of Leicester) is the senior minister at Covenant Presbyterian Church (OPC) in Vandalia, Ohio. His different books comprise religion of Our Fathers: A examine of the Nicene Creed and Bible stories on Ruth. He and his spouse, Connie, have six teenagers.

Endorsements:
“There has lengthy been a necessity for a contemporary, scholarly examine of Alexander Henderson, an important clerical chief of the Scottish Covenanters. Charles Jackson’s conscientiously researched paintings is helping us to appreciate why Henderson was once so potent and why his dying in 1646 was once one of these loss to the Covenanter flow. The booklet engages with a couple of debates between historians and highlights the significance of faith in Covenanter ideology. will probably be of specific curiosity to scholars of the British Civil Wars, presbyterianism, and the Reformed tradition.” — John Coffey, professor of early glossy background, collage of Leicester
“At final, a scholarly biography of Alexander Henderson, might be the best of the architects of post-Reformation presbyterianism. Henderson was once one of many key Scottish commissioners on the Westminster meeting and helped considerably to mould the Assembly’s files into the undying theological legacy that has been bequeathed to the Reformed church specifically, and the broader Christian church more often than not. Charles Jackson has written an attractive, insightful, and stirring biography of 1 of Scotland’s maximum pastor-theologians. this can be a e-book not only for historical past buffs yet for someone drawn to realizing the considering and activities that gave beginning to a church polity and mind-set that impacted the area, now not least of the entire United States.” — Ian Hamilton, minister of Cambridge Presbyterian Church, Cambridge, England, and writer of The Erosion of Calvinist Orthodoxy
“Serious scholars of early glossy Scottish heritage now have a balanced interpretation of 1 of Scotland’s most vital, yet long-neglected church leaders. This well-researched and punctiliously documented exam of Alexander Henderson and seventeenth-century historical past affirms a resounding thesis in regards to the nice importance of ecclesiology within the youth of presbyterian improvement. Its research of the Westminster meeting is principally informative.” — James E. McGoldrick, professor of church historical past at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary