Dr Russell Newton
Hope Trust Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 8943
- Email: russell.newton@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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New College
Mound Place - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH1 2LX
Background
I took up my role as Hope Trust Post-Doctoral Fellow in the School of Divinity in September 2018. I am currently undertaking research on the sermon culture in early modern Scotland.
Qualifications
PhD Ecclesiastical History, University of Edinburgh (2018)
MTh (Research) Ecclesiastical History, University of Edinburgh (2014)
MA (Hons) Religious Studies, University of Edinburgh (2011)
Responsibilities & affiliations
Responsibilities
Reviews Editor, Scottish Church History (2018 - Present)
Council Member, Scottish Church History Society (2017 - Present)
Affiliations
Society for Reformation Studies (2018 - Present)
Scottish Church History Society (2017 - Present)
Scottish Evangelical Theology Society (2015 - Present)
Ecclesiastical History Society (2015 - Present)
Undergraduate teaching
Religion, Covenants and Revolution in Britain and Ireland, c. 1600-1660
History of Christianity as a World Religion 1A
History of Christianity as a World Religion 1B
Christianity in Formation, 100-313
Popular Religion, Women and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
Research summary
My research focuses on Reformed Protestantism in early modern Britain. I am particularly interested in theology, exegesis, and sermons in early modern Scotland.
My doctoral thesis was titled 'Godliness Unveiled: William Guild, Biblical Types, and Reformed Protestantism in Early Modern Scotland'. It examined how biblical typology was used in early modern Scotland and its significance for Reformed Protestants. The thesis focused on the Aberdonian minister and theologian, William Guild (1586 - 1657), who published one of the most significant handbooks to biblical types during the early modern period. I am now in the process of writing a more wide-ranging intellectual biography of Guild, which is under contract with Edinburgh University Press.
My current research project is on the sermon culture of early modern Scotland, which draws heavily on archival material held in the New College library.
I am also co-editing a volume on The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland with Dr Chris R. Langley and Dr Catherine McMillan.
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Pulpit polemics and 'damnable doctrine' in early modern Scotland
In:
Reformation & Renaissance Review
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14622459.2020.1821944
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)