Beginning with a brief introduction to the landscape of, and call for, reform in the Western Church during the sixteenth-century, this module considers the work, thought, influence and person of Jean Cauvin (1509–1564), and does so with an eye on its/his abiding significance for contemporary Christian ministry and Reformed identity.

Pre-Reading

• Busch, Eberhard. ‘Who was and who is Calvin? Interpretations of Recent Times’. Reformed World 57, no. 4 (2007): 237–50.
• Calvin, John. ‘Articles concerning the Organization of the Church and of Worship at Geneva 1537’, Pages 47–55 in Calvin: Theological Treatises. Translated by J.K.S. Reid. Vol. 22 of 26. The Library of Christian Classics. London: SCM Press, 1954.
• –––––. ‘Draft Ecclesiastical Ordinances, September & October 1541’, Pages 56–72 in Calvin: Theological Treatises. Translated by J.K.S. Reid. Vol. 22 of 26. The Library of Christian Classics. London: SCM Press, 1954.
• –––––.  ‘Summary of Doctrine concerning the Ministry of the Word and the Sacraments’, Pages 170–77 in Calvin: Theological Treatises. Translated by J.K.S. Reid. Vol. 22 of 26. The Library of Christian Classics. London: SCM Press, 1954.
• MacCulloch, Diarmaid. The Reformation: A History. New York: Penguin Books, 2005, 73–84, 103–53, 207–61.

Reading Further

• Breward, Ian. ‘The Spirituality of John Calvin’. Conversations 3, no. 3 (2009).
• Calvin, John. Institutes of the Christian Religion, 1536 Edition. Translated by Ford Lewis Battles. Grand Rapids: The H.H. Meeter Centre for Calvin Studies/Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1975.
• –––––. Institutes of the Christian Religion: The First English Version of the 1541 French Edition. Translated by Elsie Anne McKee. Grand Rapids/Cambridge: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2009.
• –––––. Institutes of the Christian Religion. Edited by John T. McNeill. Translated by Ford Lewis Battles. 2 vols, The Library of Christian Classics. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1977.
• –––––. Ioannis Calvini Opera quae supersunt omnia. Edited by Guilielmus Baum, Eduardus Cunitz and Eduardus Reuss. 59 vols, Corpus Reformatorum. Brunsvigae/Berlin: Apud C.A. Schwetschke et Filium, 1863–1900.
• ––––.– ‘Catechism of the Church of Geneva, Being a Form of Instruction for Children in the Doctrine of Christ’, Pages 33–94 inTracts and Letters, Volume 2: Tracts, Part 2. Edited by Henry Beveridge and Jules Bonnet. Translated by Henry Beveridge. Vol. 2 of 7. Selected Works of John Calvin: Tracts and Letters. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1983.
• Campi, Emidio. ‘Calvin’s Understanding of the Church’. Reformed World 57, no. 4 (2007): 290–305.
• Carroll, John. The Wreck of Western Culture: Humanism Revisited. Melbourne: Scribe, 2004.
• Douglass, Jane Dempsey. ‘Calvin, Calvinism and Ecumenism’.Reformed World 55, no. 4 (2005): 295–310.
• Gordon, Bruce. Calvin. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2009.
• Hall, Basil. ‘Calvin Against the Calvinists’, Pages 19–37 in John Calvin: A Collection of Distinguished Essays. Edited by Gervase Duffield. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1966.
• Hesselink, I. John. Calvin’s Concept of the Law. Edited by Dikran Y. Hadidian, Princeton Theological Monograph Series. Allison Park: Pickwick Publications, 1992.
• ‘John Calvin: His Life and Legacy’, DVD and Study Guide, produced by the Office of Theology Worship and Education of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), 2009. The DVD is available for loan from the Hewitson Library, Knox College.
• McKee, Elsie Anne. ‘Some Reflections on the Biblical, Pastoral, and Practical Calvin’. Conversations 3, no. 3 (2009).
• Muller, Richard A. After Calvin: Studies in the Development of a Theological Tradition, Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 63–102.
• ––––––. ‘Was Calvin a Calvinist? Or, Did Calvin (or Anyone Else in the Early Modern Era) Plant the “TULIP”?’ Lecture given at H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies. Calvin College, Grand Rapids, 2009.
• Partee, Charles. The Theology of John Calvin. Louisville/London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008.
• Robinson, Marilynne. The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought. New York: Picador, 2005.
• Torrance, Thomas F. The Hermeneutics of John Calvin, Monograph Supplements to the Scottish Journal of Theology. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1988.
• Zachman, Randall C. The Assurance of Faith: Conscience in the Theology of Martin Luther and John Calvin. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.
• ––––––. John Calvin as Teacher, Pastor, and Theologian: The Shape of His Writings and Thought. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006.

This module shall explore the history and theology of the Scottish Reformation via a consideration of the life and contribution of its key figures, theological documents and kirk records.

Pre-reading

• Burleigh, John Henderson Seaforth. A Church History of Scotland. London: Oxford University Press, 1960, 153–77.
• Hazlett, Ian P. ‘The Scots Confession 1560: Context, Complexion and Critique’. Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 78 (1987): 287–320.
• Healey, Robert M. ‘The Preaching Ministry in Scotland’s First Book of Discipline’. Church History 58, no. 3 (1989): 339–53.
• Torrance, Thomas F. Scottish Theology: From John Knox to John McLeod Campbell. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1996, 1–47.

Reading Further

• Barbour, R.W. ‘John Knox’, Pages 39–86 in The Evangelical Succession: A Course of Lectures delivered in St. George’s Free Church. Edinburgh: MacNiven & Wallace, 1883.
• Barth, Karl. The Knowledge of God and the Service of God According to the Teaching of the Reformation, Recalling the Scottish Confession of 1560. Translated by J.L.M. Haire and Ian Henderson, Gifford Lectures delivered in the University of Aberdeen in 1937–1938. London: Houghton and Stoughton, 1938.
• ––––––. The Theology of the Reformed Confessions. Translated by Darrell L. Guder and Judith J. Guder, Columbia Series in Reformed Theology. Louisville/London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002.
• Cameron, James Kerr, ed. The First Book of Discipline; with Introduction and Commentary. Edinburgh: The Saint Andrew Press, 1972.
• Cheyne, Alec C. ‘The Scots Confession of 1560?. Theology Today17, no. 3 (1960): 323–38.
• Church of Scotland. The Book of Common Order of the Church of Scotland: Commonly Known as John Knox’s Liturgy. Edited by George Washington Sprott. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 1901.
• Cowan, William. A Bibliography of the Book of Common Order and Psalm Book of the Church of Scotland, 1556–1644, Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Papers 10. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 1913.
• Dawson, Jane. ‘The Two John Knoxes: England, Scotland and the 1558 Tracts’. The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 42 (1991): 555–76.
• ––––––. ‘John Knox’, Pages 370–1 in The Oxford Companion to Scottish History. Edited by Michael Lynch. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
• Dickinson, W. Croft. ‘John Knox’, Pages 1–17 in Fathers of the Kirk: Some Leaders of the Church in Scotland from the Reformation to the Reunion. Edited by Ronald Selby Wright. London/New York: Oxford University Press, 1960.
• Dolff, Scott. ‘The Two John Knoxes and the Justification of Non-Revolution: A Response to Dawson’s Argument from Covenant’.Journal of Ecclesiastical History 55, no. 1 (2004): 58–74.
• Dunlop, A.I. ‘Collegiate Churches’, Page 195 in Dictionary of Scottish Church History and Theology. Edited by Nigel M. de S. Cameron. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1993.
• Gill, Stewart D. ‘”He made my tongue a trumpet …” John Knox, The Preacher’. Reformed Theological Review 51 (1992): 102–10.
• Healey, Robert M. ‘The Preaching Ministry in Scotland’s First Book of Discipline’. Church History 58, no. 3 (1989): 339–53.
• Henderson, George David. ‘Introduction’, Pages 7–31 in Scots Confession, 1560 (Confessio Scoticana); and, Negative Confession, 1581 (Confessio Negativa). Edinburgh: Church of Scotland Committee on Publications, 1937.
• Johnson, Dale W. ‘Prophecy, Rhetoric and Diplomacy: John Knox and the Struggle for the Soul of Scotland’. Ph.D. diss., Georgia State University, 1995.
• Kingdon, Robert M. ‘Calvin and Presbytery: The Geneva Company of Pastors’. Pacific Theological Review 18, no. 2 (1985): 43–55.
• Kirk, James. Patterns of Reform: Continuity and Change in the Reformation Kirk. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1989, 70–95, 334–67.
• ––––––. ‘First Book of Discipline‘, Pages 321–2 in Dictionary of Scottish Church History and Theology. Edited by Nigel M. de S. Cameron. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1993.
• ––––––. ‘The Religion of Early Scottish Protestants’, Pages 361–412 in Humanism and Reform: The Church in Europe, England, and Scotland, 1400-1643. Essays in Honour of James K. Cameron. Edited by James Kirk. Studies in Church History. Subsidia; 8. Oxford/Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers, 1991.
• ––––––. ‘John Knox and the Historians’, Pages 7–26 in John Knox and the British Reformations. Edited by Roger A. Mason. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998.
• Kirk, James, ed. Stirling Presbytery Records 1581–1587. Edinburgh: Scottish Church History Society, 1981.
• Knox, John. ‘Of the Lord’s Supper’, Pages 189–90 in Publications, Issue 109. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication, 1842.
• ––––––. John Knox’s History of the Reformation in Scotland. Edited by William Croft Dickinson. 2 vols. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1949.
• ––––––. ‘A Declaration on the True Nature and Object of Prayer’, Pages 77–110 in The Works of John Knox. Edited by David Laing. Vol. 3 of 6. Edinburgh: Bannatyne Club, 1854.
• ––––––. The Works of John Knox. Edited by David Laing. 6 Volumes. The Works of John Knox. Edinburgh: Bannatyne Society, 1845–64.
• ––––––. Selected Practical Writings of John Knox, Public Epistles, and Treatises, and Expositions to the Year 1559. Edited by Kevin Reed. Dallas: Presbyterian Heritage Publications, 1995.
• Kyle, Richard. ‘John Knox and the Care of Souls’. Calvin Theological Journal 38, no. 1 (2003): 133–44.
• ––––––. The Ministry of John Knox: Pastor, Preacher, and Prophet. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
• ––––––. ‘Prophet of God: John Knox’s Self Awareness’.Reformed Theological Review 61, no. 2 (2002): 85–101.
• ––––––. ‘The Thundering Scot: John Knox the Preacher’.Westminster Theological Journal 64, no. 1 (2002): 135–49.
• Kyle, Richard G. and Dale W. Johnson. John Knox: An Introduction to His Life and Works. Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2009.
• Louden, R. Stuart. The True Face of the Kirk: An Examination of the Ethos and Traditions of the Church of Scotland. London: Oxford University Press, 1963.
• Lynch, Michael. ‘In Search of the Scottish Reformation’, Pages 73–94 in Scottish History: The Power of the Past. Edited by Edward J. Cowan and Richard J. Finlay. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002.
• M’Crie, Thomas. Life of John Knox: Containing Illustrations of the History of the Reformation in Scotland, with Biographical Notices of the Principal Reformers, and Sketches of the Progress of Literature in Scotland during the Sixteenth Century Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood and Sons/Thomas Cadell, 1839.
• MacFarlane, Leslie. ‘Was the Scottish Church Reformable by 1513?’ Pages 23–43 in Church, Politics and Society: Scotland 1408–1929. Edited by Norman MacDougall. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, 1983.
• MacGregor, Janet G. The Scottish Presbyterian Polity: A Study of its Origins in the Sixteenth Century. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1926.
• Macleod, John. Scottish Theology in Relation to Church History Since the Reformation. Edinburgh: The Publications Committee of the Free Church of Scotland, 1943.
• MacMillan, J. Douglas. ‘John Knox – Preacher of the Word’.Reformed Theological Journal November (1987): 5–19.
• Marshall, Rosalind K. John Knox. Edinburgh: Birlinn Publishers, 2008.
• Maxwell, William D. John Knox’s Genevan Service Book 1556: The Liturgical Portions of the Genevan Service Book used by John Knox while a Minister of the English Congregation of Marian Exiles at Geneva, 1556–1559. Edinburgh/London: Oliver and Boyd, 1931.
• McGoldrick, James Edward. ‘Patrick Hamilton, Luther’s Scottish Disciple’. Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies 18, no. 1 (1987): 81–8.
• McNeill, John Thomas. The History and Character of Calvinism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973.
• Mitchell, Alexander Ferrier, ed. A Compendious Book of Godly and Spiritual Songs: Commonly known as The gude and godlie ballatis, reprinted from the edition of 1567. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1897.
• Owen, John Michael. ‘The Structure of the Scots Confession of 1560?. Colloquium 36, no. 1 (2004): 33–58.
• Reid, W. Stanford. ‘John Knox, Pastor of Souls’. Westminster Theological Journal 40, no. 1 (1977): 1–21.
• ––––––. Trumpeter of God. New York: Scribner’s, 1974.
• Ridley, Jasper. John Knox. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.
• Robertson, Charles. Report of the Auchterarder Case: The Earl of Kinnoull, and the Rev. R. Young, against the Presbytery of Auchterarder. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1838.
• Russell, E. ‘John Knox as Statesman’. Princeton Theological Review 6 (1908): 1–29.
• Ryrie, Alec. ‘Reform without Frontiers in the Last Years of Catholic Scotland’. English Historical Review 119 (2004): 27–56.
• Sefton, Henry R. John Knox: An Account of the Development of his Spirituality. Edinburgh: Saint Andrew Press, 1993.
• ––––––. ‘Book of Common Order (1564)’, Page 85 inDictionary of Scottish Church History and Theology. Edited by Nigel M. de S. Cameron. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1993.
• Shaw, Duncan. John Knox and Mary, Queen of Scots. Edinburgh: Saint Andrew Press, 1975.
• Shaw, Duncan, ed. John Knox: A Quatercentenary Reappraisal. Edinburgh: Saint Andrew Press, 1975.
• Todd, Margo. The Culture of Protestantism in Early Modern Scotland. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
• Torrance, Thomas F. Scottish Theology: From John Knox to John McLeod Campbell. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1996.
• ––––––. Theology in Reconstruction. London: SCM, 1965.
• Whyte, James. ‘The Setting of Worship’, Pages 140–55 in Studies in the History of Worship in Scotland. Edited by Duncan B. Forrester and Douglas M. Murray. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1984.

This Module is broken into two parts. Part 1 explores the nature, value and limitations of the Reformed confessions, especially the Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), and surveys the life, witness and theology of the Scottish Kirk during the eighteenth century. And Part 2 introduces some of the key issues – theological, ecclesiological, and social – challenges and personalities that informed and reformed Church life in nineteenth-century Scotland. Particular attention will be paid to the impacts that the Industrial Revolution, the Chartist Movement, the Highland Clearances and the Great Disruption played in giving shape to the types of faith that would emerge not only in Scotland, but also in the early settlers to Aotearoa New Zealand.

Pre-Reading

• Sell, Alan P.F. ‘Confessing the Faith and Confessions of Faith’, Pages 151–67 in Christian Identity. Edited by Eduardus Van der Borght. Studies in Reformed Theology. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2008.
• Torrance, Thomas F. Scottish Theology: From John Knox to John McLeod Campbell. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1996, 125–55, 181–286.
• The Westminster Confession of Faith.
• ‘The Form of Presbyterial Church-Government’.
• Enright, William G. ‘Urbanization and the Evangelical Pulpit in Nineteenth-Century Scotland’. Church History 47, no. 4 (1978): 400–07.
• Roxborogh, John. ‘The Legacy of Thomas Chalmers’. International Bulletin of Missionary Research 23, no 4 (October 1999): 173–76.

Reading further on the 17th and 18th centuries

• Bell, M. Charles. Calvin and Scottish Theology: The Doctrine of Assurance. Edinburgh: The Handsel Press, 1985.
• Brown, Callum C. Religion and Society in Scotland since 1707. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997.
• Burleigh, J.H.S. A Church History of Scotland. London: Oxford University Press, 1960, pp. 286–333, 457.
• *Clark, Ian D.L. ‘From Protest to Reaction: The Moderate Regime in the Church of Scotland, 1752–1805?, Pages 200–224 inScotland in the Age of Improvement: Essays in Scottish Hitsory in the Eighteenth Century. Edited by N.T. Phillipson and Rosalind Mitchison. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1970.
• Davie, George E. A Passion for Ideas: Essays on Scottish Enlightenment. Edinburgh: Polygon, 1994.
• *Dowey, Jr. Edward A. ‘Confessional Documents as Reformed Hermeneutic’. Journal of Presbyterian History 79, no. 1 (2001): 53–8.
• Drummond, Andrew L. and James Bulloch. The Scottish Church 1688–1843: The Age of the Moderates. Edinburgh: St. Andrew Press, 1973.
• Fawcett, Arthur. The Cambuslang Revival: The Scottish Evangelical Revival of the Eighteenth Century. London: Banner of Truth Trust, 1971.
• Ferguson, Sinclair B. ‘The Teaching of the Confession’, Pages 28–39 in The Westminster Confession in the Church Today: Papers prepared for the Church Scotland Panel on Doctrine. Edited by Alasdair I.C. Heron. Edinburgh: The Saint Andrew Press, 1982.
• Fergusson, David. ‘The Confession in the Life of the Church of Scotland’, Pages 201–14 in Reformed Theology in Contemporary Perspective: Westminster, Yesterday, Today – and Tomorrow?Edited by Lynn Quigley. Edinburgh Dogmatics Conference Papers. Edinburgh: Rutherford House, 2006.
• Gunton, Colin. ‘Confessions, Dogmas and Doctrine: An Exploration of Some Interactions’, Pages 162–77 in Reformed Theology in Contemporary Perspective: Westminster, Yesterday, Today – and Tomorrow? Edited by Lynn Quigley. Edinburgh Dogmatics Conference Papers. Edinburgh: Rutherford House, 2006.
• Hamilton, Ian. The Erosion of Calvinist Orthodoxy: Seceders and Subscription in Scottish Presbyterianism. Edinburgh: Rutherford House, 1990.
• Hart, Trevor A. ‘Christ the Mediator’, Pages 66–86 in Reformed Theology in Contemporary Perspective: Westminster, Yesterday, Today – and Tomorrow? Edited by Lynn Quigley. Edinburgh Dogmatics Conference Papers. Edinburgh: Rutherford House, 2006.
• Hendry, George S. The Westminster Confession for Today. A Contemporary Interpretation. Richmond: John Knox Press, 1960, 9–93.
• ––––––. ‘The Idea of the Covenant in Scotland’, Pages 61–74 in The Burning Bush: Studies in Scottish Church History. Edited by George David Henderson. Edinburgh: Saint Andrew Press, 1957.
• *Lachman, David C. The Marrow Controversy. Edinburgh: Rutherford House, 1988.
• MacInnes, John. The Evangelical Movement in the Highlands of Scotland. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1951.
• McCormack, Bruce L. ‘Christ and the Decree: An Unsettled Question for the Reformed Churches Today’, Pages 124–42 inReformed Theology in Contemporary Perspective: Westminster, Yesterday, Today – and Tomorrow? Edited by Lynn Quigley. Edinburgh Dogmatics Conference Papers. Edinburgh: Rutherford House, 2006.
• McIntosh, John R. Church and Theology in Enlightenment Scotland: The Popular Party, 1740–1800. Vol. 5, Scottish Historical Review Monographs Series. East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1998.
• Meek, Donald E. ‘Revivals’, Pages 711–18 in Dictionary of ScottishChurch History and Theology. Edited by Nigel M. de S. Cameron. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1993.
• Phillipson, N.T. and Rosalind Mitchison, eds. Scotland in the Age of Improvement: Essays in Scottish History in the Eighteenth Century. Edinburgh: University Press, 1970, esp. pp. 200–224.
• Prebble, John. The Darien Disaster. London: Pimlico, 2002.
• Rohls, Jan. Reformed Confessions: Theology from Zurich to Barmen. Translated by John Hoffmeyer. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1998, esp. pp. 9–28.
• *Schmidt, Leigh Eric. Holy Fairs: Scotland and the Making of American Revivalism. 2 ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001, pp. 69–114.
• Storrar, William. Scottish Identity: A Christian Vision. Edinburgh: Handsel Press, 1990.
• Torrance, James B. ‘Covenant or Contract? A Study of the Theological Background of Worship in Seventeenth-Century Scotland’, Scottish Journal of Theology 23 (1970), 51–76.
• ––––––. ‘Strengths and Weaknesses of the Westminster Theology’, Pages 40–54 in The Westminster Confession in the Church Today: Papers prepared for the Church Scotland Panel on Doctrine. Edited by Alasdair I.C. Heron. Edinburgh: The Saint Andrew Press, 1982.
• ––––––. ‘The Concept of Federal Theology – Was Calvin a Federal Theologian?’ Pages 15-40 in Calvinus Sacrae Scripturae Professor: Calvin as Confessor of Holy Scripture. Edited by Wilhelm H. Neuser. Fourth International Congress on Calvin Research, 1990, Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1994.
• *Walker, James. The Theology and Theologians of Scotland: Chiefly of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1872.
• Wright, David F. ‘Westminster: Reformed and Ecumenical?’, Pages 162–77 in Reformed Theology in Contemporary Perspective: Westminster, Yesterday, Today – and Tomorrow?Edited by Lynn Quigley. Edinburgh Dogmatics Conference Papers. Edinburgh: Rutherford House, 2006.

Online Resources

• The Westminster Assembly Project

5. At home: Presbyterianism in Aotearoa New Zealand

This module recalls the shape that Presbyterianism has taken in Aotearoa New Zealand, and introduces interns to the Book of Order and its Supplementary Provisions, and other important documents that guide our life together.

Pre-Reading

To be decided.

Reading Further

• Belich, James. Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders: From Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2001.
• ––––––. Paradise Reforged: A History of the New Zealanders from the 1880s to the Year 2000. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2001.
• Butler, Rex and Laurence Simmons. ‘Practical Religion: On the After-life of Colin McCahon’. Landfall 215: Waiting for Godzone (2008): 119–28.
• Colless, Brian and Peter Donovan, eds. Religion in New Zealand Society. Palmerston North: Dunmore, 1985.
• Davidson, Allan K. Christianity in Aotearoa: A History of Church and Society in New Zealand. 3 ed. Wellington: New Zealand Education for Ministry, 1997.
• Grimshaw, Mike and Paul Morris. ‘Waiting for Godzone’. Landfall215: Waiting for Godzone (2008): 153–60.
• Ker, John M. and Kevin J. Sharpe, eds. Toward an Authentic New Zealand Theology: Proceedings of the 1982 Meetings of the Auckland Theology Forum. Auckland: University of Auckland Chaplaincy Publishing Trust, 1984.
• Lineham, Peter and Allan K. Davidson, eds. Transplanted Christianity. 4 ed. Palmerston North: Department of History, Massey University, 1997.
• Matheson, Peter. The Finger of God in the Disruption: Scottish Principles and New Zealand Realities. Dunedin: Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand, Synod of Otago and Southland, 1993.
• Matheson, Peter, Ian Breward, Laurie Barber, Allan Davidson, and James Veitch. Presbyterians in Aotearoa, 1840–1990. Edited by Dennis McEldowney. Wellington: Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, 1990.
• McKean, John. The Church in a Special Colony: A History of the Presbyterian Synod Otago & Southland, 1866–1991. Dunedin: Synod of Otago and Southland, Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand, 1994.
• Morris, Paul. ‘Kiwi Gods: Religion and New Zealand’. Landfall 215: Waiting for Godzone (2008): 141–49.
• Morris, Paul and Mike Grimshaw, eds. The Lloyd Geering Reader: Prophet of Modernity. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2007.
• Morris, Paul and Harry Ricketts. ‘Irreverent but not Irreligious: Good Kiwi Joker Spirituality from Allen Curnow to Flight of the Conchords’.Landfall 215: Waiting for Godzone (2008): 95–104.
• Nichol, Christopher and James Veitch, eds. Religion in New Zealand. 2 ed. Wellington: C. Nichol for the Tertiary Christian Studies Programme of the Combined Chaplaincies and the Religious Studies Dept. at Victoria University of Wellington, 1983.
• Phillips, Jock and Terry Hearn. Settlers: New Zealand Immigrants from England, Ireland & Scotland, 1800–1945. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2008.
• Roberts, John Haig. Thinking Theologically in Aotearoa New Zealand. Paihia: ColCom Press, 2000.
• Stenhouse, John. ‘Christianity, Gender and the Working Class in Southern Dunedin, 1880–1940’. J Relig Hist 30, no. 1 (2006): 18–44.
• ––––––. ‘God’s Own Silence: Secular Nationalism, Christianity and the Writing of New Zealand History’. New Zeal J Hist 38, no. 1 (2004): 52–71.
• ––––––. ‘Imperialism, Atheism and Race: Charles Southwell, Old Corruption, and the Maori’. JBS 44, no. 4 (2005): 754–74.
• Stenhouse, John, ed. Christianity, Modernity and Culture: New Perspectives on New Zealand History. Adelaide: ATF Press, 2005.
• Stenhouse, John and Brett Knowles, eds. The Future of Christianity: Historical, Sociological, Political and Theological Perspectives from New Zealand. Adelaide: ATF Press, 2004.
• Stenhouse, John and L. Paterson. ‘Nga Poropiti me nga Hahi-Prophets and the Churches’, Pages 171–80 in Ki te Whaio: An Introduction to Maori Culture and Society. Edited by Tania M. Ka’ai, John C. Moorfield, Michael P.J. Reilly and Sharon Mosley. Auckland: Pearson, 2004.
• Stenhouse, John and Jane Thomson, eds. Building God’s Own Country: Historical Essays on Religions in New Zealand. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2004.

He Taonga hei Whakatu Honohono

In 1992, the Communications Department of the PCANZ published the following five booklets:

• 1. Te Hinota Maori: The Maori Synod, Maori Spiritualty and Ministry
• 2. Te Maungarongo: The Ancestral House of the Maori Synod
• 3. Te Kakano o te Aroha: The Church Marae of the Wellington Maori Pastorate
• 4. Kawa Marae: A Detailed Guide to Marae Visits
• 5. Mahi Tahi: Resources for Bi-Cultural Partnership

Links

• Aotearoa New Zealand Association for Mission Studies
• Association of Practical Theology in Oceania
• Australasian Theological Forum
• Australasian Victorian Studies Journal
• Australian and New Zealand Association of Theological Schools
• Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
• Early New Zealand Books Project
• The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
• Maori Dictionary
• National Library of New Zealand
• New Zealand Association of Theological Schools
• New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
• New Zealand Historical Association
• New Zealand History Online
• New Zealand Religious History Newsletter
• Papers Past – National Library of New Zealand
• Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand Archives Research Centre
• Religious History Association of Aotearoa New Zealand

6. Reformed Theology in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

Course Schedule

November 2011

1. Reformed Identity, Celtic Roots (new interns)

7. Reformed Theology in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

February 2012

2. Reformations in Europe: John Calvin

July 2012

3. The Scottish Reformation

November 2012

1. Reformed Identity, Celtic Roots (new interns)

6. At home: Presbyterianism in Aotearoa New Zealand

February 2013

4. 17th and 18th Centuries: Confessions and Covenants, Revival and Mission in an Age of Reason

5. 19th Century: Confessional Conflicts, Modernity’s Challenges, Heroes and ‘Heretics’

July 2013 (Auckland)

Examination (for 2nd-year interns)

November 2013

1. Reformed Identity, Celtic Roots (new interns)

7. Reformed Theology in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

February 2014

6. At home: Presbyterianism in Aotearoa New Zealand

July 2014

2. Reformations in Europe: John Calvin

Examination (for 2nd-year interns)

November 2014

1. Reformed Identity, Celtic Roots (new interns)

3. The Scottish Reformation

 

Assessments

Assignment 1

Choose ONE of the following:

1. Discuss the life and contribution of a Presbyterian or Reformed figure of your choice.

OR

2. Discuss the origin, content and significance of a theological conviction, document or organisation important for Presbyterian/Reformed identity. (2,000 words; 30%)

[NB. You may also be invited to share your paper with the class]

Assignment 2

What are the distinctive characteristics of Reformed faith and identity? (2,000 words; 30%)

[NB. You may also be invited to share your paper with the class]

Examination

A two-hour examination will take place during the Winter Block Course of the second year of your studies. This will be worth 40% of your final grade.

 

Notes

• Referencing for assignments should follow an internationally-recognised system such as the SBL Handbook of Style.
• Each assignment must be accompanied by an Assignment Cover Sheet.

Enquiries about this paper should be directed to Jason Goroncy.