Episcopalian Theology 1689–c.1900

Abstract

The chapter examines the principal developments in the emergence of the Scottish Episcopal Church from the end of the Stuart monarchy in 1689, when Episcopalians began to be ejected as non-jurors from the Church of Scotland to the end of the nineteenth century. It concentrates on those aspects of theology which particularly marked out these Scots as Episcopalians, especially in liturgy, the Eucharist and sacraments, episcopacy, and Jacobitism. While reviewing the development of a separate ecclesiastical and theological identity in these two centuries, the chapter also explores some of the internal theological differences between Episcopalians. External theological influences and connections from England over this period, principally from High Church, Oxford Movement Anglicanism, and Evangelicalism, are also examined.