Church History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on the institutional history of the church
Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:
Note about the last priest at Clachan, August 1883
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/37
Scope and Contents
Note probably collected from Christina Campbell née Macintyre, Lios Mòr/Lismore Earra, Ghàidheal/Argyllshire that Father MacGregor was the last priest at Clachan [Lios Mòr/Lismore].
Dates:
August 1883
Papers of Andrew Nisbet Bogle
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1004
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of the following:in Box 1/9:
- box containing Moderator's laces
- offprints, being copies of: the Churches Conference, held at the Library Hall, New College, Edinburgh, and its 'Draft of Unity Act' 10 February 1927; Committee to Confer with the United Free Church of Scotland; Scottish Church Society and its 'Notes on the Basis and Plan of Union'; and, Principal...
Dates:
1892-1980
Papers of E. M. T. Epelle (d. 1973)
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 22
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of: correspondence (with Andrew Walls), papers and reports relating to Epelle's research (1966-1973); church histories (written by church history committees or Epelle) of Anglican churches in the Niger Delta Diocese (1966), unorthodox and Seventh Day Adventist churches in Aba and Opobo (1966, 1971), Methodist churches in Ikot Ekpene (1971), and Qua Iboe churches in East Central and South East states (1972); and some completed questionnaires on African tribal and...
Dates:
1965-1973
Papers of Professor Gordon Donaldson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-78
Scope and Contents
The papers of Professor Gordon Donaldson within Gen. 1627-1645 consist of general and individual correspondence and correspondence with institutions and publishers. There is material and notes on churches, about crofters, emigration, genealogy, and the Northern Isles. There are lectures and notes; personal and family papers; photographs; and, press cuttings. There is manuscript material, typescript material, and proofs. These all cover the period 1935-1993.The collection also...
Dates:
1549-1993
Papers of Reverend Robert Rainy (1826-1906)
Fonds
Identifier: GD8
Scope and Contents
The material is composed of: an exercise book and loose exercise book pages of church history and class lectures in church history, 1862-1899; manuscript and typescript of a projected Life of St. Augustine; notes for further work; an illuminated address of the Edinburgh Presbytery of the United Free Church of Scotland to Rainy, 1901, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his ordination; and bound volume of newspaper cuttings, obituaries, tributes on the...
Dates:
1862-1906
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Papers of the Rev. Marcus Dods (1786-1838)
Fonds
Identifier: GD26
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of: sermons, lectures, address etc. on Old Testament books and themes, including 21 on Ezekial, 31 on Acts and the Gospel of John, and on miscellaneous New Testament books and themes; thematic sermons; miscellaneous thematic lectures, address etc; Biblical canon, Bross lectures on the Bible, history of biblical criticism, the Authorised version, Bible compared with other sacred books, development of biblical interpretation in the eighteenth century; material on...
Dates:
1810-1835
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Papers of the Rev. Professor William Cunningham (1805-1861)
Fonds
Identifier: GD29
Scope and Contents
The collection consist of: notebook of geometry exercises from Duns Academy, 1820, with additional algebra exercises loosely inserted; notebook of student exercises mainly on Latin authors and grammar, 1821-1822; notes of the lectures by Cunningham taken down by Walker, Norman M. D. L., 1844-1845, with a letter from Walker's son, Sir Norman Walker, 1931, loosely inserted; 2 volumes of lectures on apologetics, delivered to students in theology at the Free Church College (the New College),...
Dates:
1820-1931
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Papers relating to Robert Baillie (1599-1662)
Fonds
Identifier: GD52
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of: a conference by letters with a Canterburian Minister anent the Arminian tenet of the Saint's apostasie; Duorum studiosorum de geniculatione ... collatio; A peaceable consideration of a paper against kneeling; Commentariolus de praecipius Pontificorum armoribus; Tractatus de forma et causa justificationis; Oratio in Academia Glasguensis comitiis habita a R.B. anno 1627; Oratio in laudem linguae Hebraeae in Academia comitiis ... 1629; and, My brothers books ....
Dates:
1627-1710
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Primitive Church Order, c1912-c1955
Item
Identifier: BAI 1/4/1/17
Scope and Contents
Undated lecture by John Baillie, looking at the early history within the Christian Church and how it was organised.
Dates:
c1912-c1955
Records of the Scottish Ecclesiological Society
Fonds
Identifier: GD10
Scope and Contents
The records contain: minute books of the Scottish Ecclesiological Society, 1904 to 1965, with 1935-1942 wanting; cash books of the Scottish Ecclesiological Society, 1911-1931 and 1934 to 1954; membership accounts of the Scottish Ecclesiological Society, 1903-1913 and 1924-1955; income tax records of the Scottish Ecclesiological Society, 1936-1963; correspondence of the Scottish Ecclesiological Society, 1957-1963; letter books of the Aberdeen Ecclesiological Society, 1891-1903, and the minute...
Dates:
1891-1972
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections