Disruption of 1843

The Disruption Assembly by David Octavius Hill
Disruption brooch showing the graves of Andrew Melville, John Knox, David Welsh, James Renwick, and Alexander Henderson. Chalmers, Dunlop and Candlish are also mentioned.[1]

The Disruption of 1843, also known as the Great Disruption,[2] was a schism in 1843[3][4] in which 450 evangelical ministers broke away from the Church of Scotland[5] to form the Free Church of Scotland.[6] The main conflict was over whether the Church of Scotland or the British Government had the power to control clerical positions and benefits. The Disruption came at the end of a bitter conflict within the Church of Scotland, and had major effects in the church and upon Scottish civic life.[7]

  1. ^ "Disruption Brooch". Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  2. ^ Buchanan 1854a.
  3. ^ Durham, James; Blair, Robert (preface) (1659). The dying man's testament to the Church of Scotland, or, A treatise concerning scandal. London: Company of Stationers. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  4. ^ Macpherson, John (1903). McCrie, C.G. (ed.). The doctrine of the church in Scottish theology. Edinburgh: Macniven & Wallace. pp. 91–128.
  5. ^ Miller, Hugh (1871). The Headship of Christ (5th ed.). Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo. pp. 472–479. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
  6. ^ Walker 1895.
  7. ^ Bayne 1893.