At the Disruption (1843), under the leadership of Dr. Thomas Chalmers, the Evangelical party in the Church of Scotland as By Law Established withdrew to form the Church of Scotland, Free. In 1900, when the great majority in the Free Church combined with the United Presbyterian Church to form the United Free Church of Scotland, a small minority elected to continue as the Free Church of Scotland. The adherents of this “constitutionalist” party were to be found mainly, although not exclusively, in the Highlands and islands of Scotland. Union was possible only on the basis of com promise:the minority took the view that doctrines which were being treated as open questions were so vital to the faith that the duty of Christian unity had to yield to the higher duty of fidelity to the truth. Today the Free Church of Scotland, although much reduced in size, maintains in continuity with the church of 1843 the system of doctrine and the form of worship adopted by the Church of Scotland at the Reformation. The singing of the Scottish metrical psalms, unaccompanied by instrumental music, is, perhaps, the most distinctive feature of its liturgy; but the chief emphasis of its worship is still to be found in the centrality of the pulpit and the proclamation of a free and sovereign salvation.
Die Kirche verfügt über mehrere hundert Diakone. Sie unterhält Missionsstationen in Peru, Kolumbien und Südafrika.
Publikationen: Monthly Record, The Instructor, Free
Statistik der Kirche
Mitglieder
total: 20000
Gemeinden
(herkömmlich): 115
Hauskreise
(Gemeinden im Werden): 25
Ordinierte
total: 95
Frauenordination nicht üblich
Älteste
total: 0
Diakone/innen
total: 0
diakonische Einrichtungen vorhanden
Missionare/innen
total: 10
Missionare im Ausland tätig
Taufe
Kinder- und Gläubigentaufe
Taufpaten
Keine Informationen über Taufpaten
Abendmahl
pro Jahr: 3
Publikationen
Herausgabe eigener Zeitschriften (siehe Text)
Theol. Ausbildungsstätten
Anzahl: 1
Allgemeinbld. Schulen
keine Angaben zu sonstigen Schulen vorhanden
Gründungsjahr
1900
Organisationstruktur
9 prebyteries, 3 Synods, 1 overseas Synod in Canada
At the Disruption (1843), under the leadership of Dr. Thomas Chalmers, the Evangelical party in the Church of Scotland as By Law Established withdrew to form the Church of Scotland, Free. In 1900, when the great majority in the Free Church combined with the United Presbyterian Church to form the United Free Church of Scotland, a small minority elected to continue as the Free Church of Scotland. The adherents of this “constitutionalist” party were to be found mainly, although not exclusively, in the Highlands and islands of Scotland. Union was possible only on the basis of com promise:the minority took the view that doctrines which were being treated as open questions were so vital to the faith that the duty of Christian unity had to yield to the higher duty of fidelity to the truth. Today the Free Church of Scotland, although much reduced in size, maintains in continuity with the church of 1843 the system of doctrine and the form of worship adopted by the Church of Scotland at the Reformation. The singing of the Scottish metrical psalms, unaccompanied by instrumental music, is, perhaps, the most distinctive feature of its liturgy; but the chief emphasis of its worship is still to be found in the centrality of the pulpit and the proclamation of a free and sovereign salvation. 