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One of the three original ministerial training institutions of the Free Church of Scotland (1843–1900): Free Church College, Aberdeen, now Christ's College, Aberdeen; Free Church College, Edinburgh, now New College, Edinburgh; Free Church College, Glasgow, now Trinity College, Glasgow; Edinburgh Theological Seminary, which was run by the Free ...
It traces its origins back to the foundation of New College, Edinburgh at the time of the Disruption of 1843. [1] At the formation of the United Free Church, the United Free Church was granted the New College buildings, and so the continuing Free Church moved to new premises in 1907. [1] It acquired its present name in 2014.
Having begun divinity studies in the Free Church College, his opposition to the Declaratory Act passed by the Free Church of Scotland General Assembly in 1892 led to his continuing his studies in divinity at the Assembly's College, Belfast, [2] the Theological College of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, where he obtained first place in Ecclesiastical History and Biblical Criticism.
He was appointed professor of systematic theology at the Free Church College (now Edinburgh Theological Seminary) in May 1978, a position he held for some 33 years. [4] In 1996, he was considering leaving the Free Church to join the Church of Scotland, and following a new career as a writer and journalist, [6] but remained in post and in 1999 was elected as principal of the Free Church College.
St Colm's College was established in Edinburgh in 1894 as a missionary training college for women, with Annie Hunter Small as its first principal. [ 1 ] In August 2010, the College's property would eventually be sold off after the Church of Scotland determined it could no longer afford to maintain it.
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The New College Missionary Society had undertaken home mission work in deprived areas of Edinburgh since 1845, settling in the former buildings of Pleasance Free Church in 1876. In 1893, a tenement for resident student workers was added to the mission premises, establishing the mission as part of the growing settlement movement.
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