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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.
New College was the ministerial training college for the Free Church of Scotland. 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.
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.
He then embarked on a religious career studying divinity at New College, Edinburgh from 1886 to 1890. [citation needed] In 1890 he was ordained by the Free Church of Scotland as minister of Kilbride on the Isle of Arran. He remained in the Free Church following the Union of 1900, but lost his church in this decision.
John Macleod (1872–1948) was a Scottish minister and Principal of the Free Church College from 1927 to 1942. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland and was the author of Scottish Theology in relation to Church History. [1]
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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.