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Mr. Simson's Knotty Case: Divinity, Politics and Due Process in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland by Anne Skoczylas is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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The issues involved in these trials included the right of universities to discipline their professors, the degree of political control over the appointment and methodology of teachers, the preservation of factional advantage through such appointments, and the nature of the relationship between a state church and the public institutions responsible for educating its clergy. Skoczylas shows that the effect of the Enlightenment on Scottish Calvinism, which required adaptation to new developments in
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- Author
- Anne Skoczylas
- Publisher
- Carleton University Press
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780773564220
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Religion, Historical Fiction, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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