James Buchanan (minister)
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{{short description|Scottish theologian}}
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James Buchanan (1804–1870) was a preacher and theological writer. He was born in 1804 at Paisley, and studied at the University of Glasgow. In 1827 he was ordained Church of Scotland minister of Roslin, near Edinburgh, and in 1828 he was translated to charge of North Leith. In 1840 Buchanan was translated to the High Church (St. Giles’), Edinburgh, and in 1843, after the Disruption, he became first minister of St. Stephen's Free Church. In 1845 he was appointed professor of apologetics in the New College (Free church), Edinburgh, and in 1847, on the death of Dr. Thomas Chalmers, he was transferred to the chair of systematic theology, continuing there till his resignation in 1868.
Life
James Buchanan was born in Paisley on 14 April 1804 as the eldest son of James Buchanan, a wine merchant. He was educated at Paisley Grammar School.{{sfn|Scott|1915}}
After studies at Glasgow University and Edinburgh University, he was licensed to preach as a Church of Scotland minister by the Presbytery of Paisley in 1826.{{sfn|Scott|1915}}
He was ordained as a minister of the Church of Scotland at Roslin in November 1827 and translated the North Leith Parish Church in September 1828 in place of Walter Foggo Ireland, where he attained great fame as a preacher. In 1840, Buchanan was called to second charge of St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh, in place of George Husband Baird. In this role he was under Rev Robert Gordon in first charge.{{sfn|Scott|1915}}
In the Disruption of 1843 he left the established church and joined the Free Church of Scotland. From 1843 to 1845 he was minister of the Free High Church of Edinburgh then moved to St Stephen's Free Church in Stockbridge, Edinburgh in 1845. From May 1845, he was additionally appointed as Professor of Apologetics at the newly-built New College of the Free Church on the Mound in central Edinburgh. In 1847 he succeeded Thomas Chalmers as Professor of Systematic Theology, which he held until 1868 when he retired.
He received an honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD) from Princeton University in 1844 and an honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) from Glasgow University in 1852.{{sfn|Scott|1915}}
He died on 19 April 1870 at 51 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh. He is buried in the north-east section of the Grange Cemetery, facing the main north path.
Family
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In February 1829 he married Elizabeth Cochrane, daughter of John Cochrane, a Glasgow merchant. They had a son James (1829-1888) and a daughter Elizabeth (b.1831) before his wife's early death in May 1832. In December 1836 he married Mary Morison, daughter of John Morison of Hetland, with whom he had a daughter, Janet (b.1840).
Mary Morison died in 1887 and is buried with her parents in St Cuthbert's Churchyard in Edinburgh.
Works
- 1837, Comfort in Affliction
- 1840, Improvement of Affliction
- 1842, [https://books.google.com/books?id=0fg2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA3 The Office and Work of the Holy Spirit]{{sfn|Buchanan|1847}}
- 1843, On the Tracts for the Times
- 1855, Studies in apologetics, Faith in God and atheism compared in their essential nature, theoretical grounds and practical influence
- 1857, Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
- 1861, The ‘Essays and Reviews’ Examined
- 1864, [https://books.google.com/books?id=iYsEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 Analogy Considered as a Guide to Truth and Applied as an Aid to Faith]
- 1867 Doctrine of Justification - An Outline of Its History in the Church and of Its Exposition from Scripture (1866 Cunningham lectures) [http://pap.com.au/buchanan/jb_jus00.htm]
See also
References
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- {{DNB|wstitle=Buchanan, James|last=Blaikie|first=William Garden|authorlink=William Garden Blaikie|volume=7}}
- {{cite book|last1=Brown|first1=Thomas|title=Annals of the disruption|date=1883|publisher=Macniven & Wallace|location=Edinburgh|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t72v2gg94&view=2up&seq=75&size=200&q1=james%20buchanan}}
- {{cite book |last1=Buchanan |first1=James |title=The Office and Work of the Holy Spirit |date=1847 |publisher=R. Carter |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/officeandworkho02buchgoog/page/n5/mode/2up}}
- {{cite ODNB|title=Buchanan, James (1804–1870)|last=Jinkins|first=Michael|id=3840|date=2004}}
- {{source attribution|{{cite book |last=Scott |first=Hew |title=Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae; the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation |volume=1|date=1915 |publisher=Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd |url=https://archive.org/details/fastiecclesiaesc01scot/ |author-link=Hew Scott|page=[https://archive.org/details/fastiecclesiaesc01scot/page/68/mode/2up 69]}}}}
- {{cite book |last1=Thomson |first1=Edward Anderson |title=Memorials of a Ministry: A Selection from the Discourses of Edward A. Thomson |date=1891 |publisher=T. & T. Clark |location=Edinburgh |page=[https://archive.org/details/memorialsaminis00thomgoog/page/n30/mode/2up 19] |url=https://archive.org/details/memorialsaminis00thomgoog}}
- {{cite book |last1=Wylie |first1=James Aitken |title=Disruption worthies : a memorial of 1843, with an historical sketch of the free church of Scotland from 1843 down to the present time |date=1881 |publisher=T. C. Jack |location=Edinburgh |pages=[https://archive.org/details/disruptionworthi00wyli/page/95/mode/2up 95]–100 |url=https://archive.org/stream/disruptionworthi00wyli}}
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External links
- {{Gutenberg author | id=9217}}
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=James Buchanan}}
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