The Second Disruption: the Free Church in Victorian Scotland and the Origins of the Free Presbyterian Church.(Book Review) From: Church History | Date: June 1, 2003| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2003 American Society of Church History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

By James Lachlan MacLeod. Scottish Historical Review Monograph 8. East Linton, Scotland: Tuckwell, 2000. x + 277 pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling] paper.

In 1843, the Church of Scotland suffered the well-known Great Disruption that was set off by disputes over patronage and the emergence of an Evangelical party. Led by Thomas Chalmers, some forty percent of the clergy, with wide following among the urban middle class and Highlanders, separated to form the Free Church of Scotland. Although patronage rights were repealed in 1874, the Free Church continued as a successful competitor ...

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