Scotland Magazine

IN SEARCH OF DISSENTERS

Although the state-based Church of Scotland (‘the Kirk’) was established at the Reformation in 1560, it has had a tortuous history. Over the last four centuries there have been many doctrinal based splits from the body, leading to the creation of smaller, equally Presbyterian, denominations.

Between 1560 and 1690, the greatest threat to

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