Released in the UK September 2020
Released in the US September 2020
Royale Hardback 234 X 156 | 464 Pages
9781527102415 • £24.99 $32.99
BISAC – REL067000
Therefore the Truth I Speak
Scottish Theology 1500 – 1700
Donald Macleod
Historical theological study
Foundation of reformed theology
By one of Scotland’s leading theologians
The Scottish church was forever altered by the arrival of the Reformation in the sixteenth century. Its legacy endured, and provoked a flurry of theological re–examinations which form the foundation for much of our modern understanding of Reformed Theology. In this informed and accessible historical study, Donald MacLeod, one of Scotland’s current leading theologians, looks to the past to assess the impact of prominent theologians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, always with an eye to demonstrating how their writings speak to contemporary challenges facing the Church today.
Donald Macleod
Donald Macleod (1940–2023) was the Principal of the Free Church of Scotland College, Edinburgh until 2010. Regarded as one of Britain’s most prominent theologians he wrote extensively on a wide range of issues.
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Mentor
Not for over eighty years has there appeared a treatment as authoritative as this … an outstanding contribution that presents a range of important Scottish theologians from Hamilton to Witherspoon in an appreciative but realistic light. This should be the standard for many years to come.
Robert Letham
Wales Evangelical School of Theology, Bridgend, Wales
I have been waiting for this book to be written for over thirty years. And Donald Macleod is the only one who could have written it. The history is important. The theology more so.
Ligon Duncan
Chancellor and CEO, Reformed Theological Seminary
This heart–warming and illuminative account of the debates and the personalities who contributed to the development of Presbyterianism in Scotland will inform and inspire those who long for the growth and health of the Reformed faith across the world.
Stafford Carson
Principal and Professor of Ministry, Union Theological College, Belfast, Northern Ireland
The leading Reformed theologians of Scotland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, dedicated to making doctrine conform to the teaching of Scripture, are carefully expounded by Donald Macleod in this book. The author defends his subjects from later misrepresentations and does not shrink from the task of assessing their relevance to later years and even the church of today.
David Bebbington
Professor of History, University of Stirling, Stirling