Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Mortification of Spin
Episode: Chief Scottish Man
Description: Carl and Todd sit down to chat with an old friend. Sandy Finlayson is the library director and professor of Theological Bibliography at Westminster Theological Seminary. Carl leads the conversation by describing the genesis of the Free Church of Scotland and the men who led what was called “The Great Disruption.” Among them, we find Thomas Chalmers, one of the main leaders of the movement and the subject of Sandy’s academic interest.
In the Church of Scotland, who had the right to call a minister to the congregation–the state, the head of the church, or the parishioners? The many diff...