Monthly Archives: February 2011

Hugh Miller

By Donald Macleod | Published: February 28, 2011

Imagine it’s 1842 and in the thick dusk of an Edinburgh winter you’re walking across the Meadows. You take little notice of passers-by, but suddenly one approaches who commands instant attention. Dressed in tweeds and over-wrapped in a plaid, his tackety boots hit the road resolutely with every stride. An eccentric, perhaps even a poser, [...]

Review: The Lost Message of Jesus

By Donald Macleod | Published: February 26, 2011

The most fascinating thing about this book is that it is deadly boring.  It took me two months to read its 197 pages, mainly because I kept putting it aside since, for sheer excitement, it couldn’t compete with Bavinck’s Prolegomena to Dogmatics or Kuyper’s Principles of Sacred Theology. Yet if ever a book was designed [...]

Thoughts on the Trinity

By Donald Macleod | Published: February 25, 2011

One of the fascinating things about theology is that questions of form and questions of substance are often intertwined.  This is certainly true of the doctrine of the trinity.  The moment we address it we face the question of order: Do we treat it before or after the doctrine of the attributes?

The New Gael

By Donald Macleod | Published: February 25, 2011

An Gaidheal Ur. “De tha sin, a ghraidh?”  On the telly, Celtic and Liverpool.  On the radio, Rangers and Strasbourg.  We have come a long way. In Stornoway, my mother lies dying: a seann Ghaidheal to the last.  Her mother died when she was four; her stepmother when she was twelve.  Her first child died, [...]