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
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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).

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English

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Open.

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Description Notes

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Source: Dictionary of National Biography entry for Thomas Chalmers.

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Date(s) of descriptions:
1999, revised Jul 2001