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Scotland's Methodists
1750 - 2000 by Margaret Batty
ISBN: 9781906566265
Imprint: John Donald
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Format: Hardback
Price: £30.00
Stock Status: in stock
'We are indebted to Batty for her sobering study of both the promises and the harsh realities the heirs of Wesley face in cultures shaped by splintering visions of Christendom' - Methodist History
This definitive history traces the origins and evolution of Methodism in Scotland, through the breakaway ‘Connexions’ of the nineteenth century to wartime and ecumenical activity in the twentieth century. In the broad context of Christian activity in Scotland, 1750–2000, it looks at the activity of lay ‘Local Preachers’ and Sunday School teachers, men and women who broke new ground as they shared the gospel in light of their workaday experience. The book brings to light many otherwise unknown local characters, telling a human story, which shows how personal aspirations and disappointments fitted into the larger picture. Based on extensive original archival research, Scotland’s Methodists makes a strong and distinctive contribution to the history of religion in Scotland over the last three centuries. It will appeal to academic historians and students of religion, to Methodists in local communities across Scotland, as well as to the wider community of Methodist scholars in the UK and USA.
Margaret Batty graduated with an honours degree from the University of Leeds in 1949 and a PhD from the University of London in 1988. With her husband Harry (a Methodist minister) she lived and worked in British Guiana and subsequently in the Thirsk and Reeth Methodist Circuits in Yorkshire, where she taught French and Latin in various secondary schools. She was Editor of Scottish Methodism, the journal of the Scottish Branch of the Wesley Historical Society, from 1996 to 2000. Now retired, she lives in Edinburgh.
