Dissent After Disruption: Church and State in Scotland, 1843-63

A history of post-Disruption Scottish Presbyterian dissent and its religious, political, and social influence The Disruption of the Church of Scotland was one of the most important events in Victorian Britain and had a profound and lasting impact on Scottish religion, politics and society. This book provides the first detailed account of the two major non-established Presbyterian denominations in the two decades after 1843, which together accounted for roughly half of Scotland's churchgoers: the Free Church, formed by those who left the Established Church at the Disruption, and the United Presbyterian Church, a consolidation of the various secessions of the previous century. Ryan Mallon explores how the relationship between these churches developed from the bitter feuds over the church-state connection prior to the Disruption to co-operation in the major ecclesiastical, political and social matters of the day, paving the way to negotiations for merger commencing in 1863. The period bet