Chalmers Lectures, notes
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0103 MS ADD 162 |
Held at | : University College London Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll › |
Full title | : Chalmers Lectures, notes |
Date(s) | : Created c1850 |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 3 volumes |
Name of creator(s) | : Unknown student |
Detailed catalogue | : Click here to view repository detailed catalogue |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Thomas Chalmers: born in Scotland, 1780; influential theologian, preacher and philanthropist; DD; held the Chair of moral philosophy in the University of St Andrews, 1823-1828; held the Chair of theology in the University of Edinburgh, 1828-1843; Principal and Professor of divinity in the New College (of the Free Church), Edinburgh; delivered an influential course of lectures in London, 1838; a reformer, advocating self-government in the Christian church, and engaged in controversy on the subject resulting in the formation of the Free Church in Scotland, of which Chalmers was elected first moderator; devised, as means of support for the disestablished church, the sustentation fund, based on a contribution from each member of a penny a week, which was successful; worked to address the many poor in Scottish cities who attended no church; died, 1847. Publications: various works on theology, Christinity, Scripture and philosophy published during his lifetime and posthumously.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Notes by a student on lectures given by Dr Thomas Chalmers on divinity (vol. 4), churches (vol. 7), and various other subjects (vol. 12, watermark 1850).
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open.
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Collection level description.
Archival Information
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Unknown.
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Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Source: Dictionary of National Biography entry for Thomas Chalmers.
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Date(s) of descriptions:
1999, revised Jul 2001
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