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In 1985, he was appointed a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. In 1990, he was appointed Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Aberdeen, before moving to Edinburgh to take up the position of the Chair of Divinity in 2000. He has held this post at New College in the University of Edinburgh until 2021. [8]
This Free Church College was renamed Edinburgh Theological Seminary in 2014. Prior to the 1929 reunion of the Church of Scotland, candidates for the ministry in the United Free Church studied at New College, whilst candidates for the old Church of Scotland studied in the Divinity Faculty of the University of Edinburgh.
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.
Meadowbank Parish Church (known until 2017 as Holyrood Abbey Church) is a congregation of the Church of Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is based in a late-Victorian church building on London Road, Abbeyhill, around 0.5 miles (0.80 km) north of Holyrood Abbey. The church building was opened in December 1900 as Abbeyhill United Free Church.
He was Bishop of Edinburgh from 1986 and was elected Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church in 1992. He resigned from these positions in 2000 and is now regarded as one of the most outspoken and controversial figures in the church, [1] having taken an agnostic worldview and commenting widely on issues concerning religious belief in the modern ...
minister of New North, Edinburgh [4] In office 8 September 1825 – 9 September 1830: minister of St Giles [5] In office 9 September 1830 – 4 November 1846: Moderator of the General Assembly; In office 1841–1842: minister of Free New North, Edinburgh [5] In office 18 May 1843 – 21 October 1853: Professor of Divinity, New College [5] In office
He was first senior warden of Pollock Halls of Residence, where the refectory is now named in his honour. In 1971 he was interim minister of the High Kirk of Edinburgh . [ 6 ] He was Dean of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle from 1974 until 1989, Extra Chaplain to the Queen in Scotland 1974–75, [ 7 ] Chaplain 1975–86, [ 8 ...
St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral is the Mother Church of all Scottish Episcopal churches in the Edinburgh Diocese, which stretches from the Firth of Forth down to the English border. There are seven dioceses in Scotland. St Mary’s is the see of the Lord Bishop of Edinburgh, one of the seven bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church.