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Reforming the Kirk is essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of the Church of Scotland or who wants to understand the deep challenges facing it in contemporary Scotland. The Church of Scotland has had a profound social and cultural influence on all aspects of Scottish life for over 450 years. Yet many feel that times now are harder for the Church than ever before - and that spirits are low. People are asking what has happened to the Church that they have loved, served and belonged to for so long and how the Church can have a strong, vibrant future. The Church's motto, semper reformanda, means 'always to be reformed,' but what kind of reformation is needed now to bring about the future for which so many so long? Doug Gay’s analysis brings a rich blend of historical, theological and cultural understanding to bear on analysing patterns of decline within the context of a secularising Scotland and proposing bold and creative ways for the Kirk to respond.
Excerpt from The Future of the Church in Scotland: A Paper Read at a Conference of the Scottish Episcopal Church at Aberdeen on the 9th of October 1894 I understand, from a speech delivered by Dr John macleod of Govan, at Burnbank, Hamil ton, - reported in the Glasgow Herald of October 19, - and from other criticisms, that an allusion in the paper to the possibility of Disestablishment has been much misunderstood. As it was in no sense vital to the argument, I have now omitted it. I find my meaning well expressed by Dr Leishman in his opening address to the Confer ence of the Scottish Church Society, at Glasgow, in November 1893. There was a threat of assailing the Church for the purpose of sever ing her alliance with the State. For themselves for her defence, they looked to her foundations, and found that these did not rest only on modern acts of legislation and ancient assignments of property. This looking to the foundations of the Church is the mark of what I cannot but regard as a real Catholic revival in the Established Church. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.