Trinity College, Glasgow

Trinity College, Glasgow, Scotland, is an independent part of the University of Glasgow's School of Divinity. It provides special supervision of candidates for the ministry through a Principal (appointed by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland) and an academic senate. The College is the official channel of liaison between the University of Glasgow, the Church of Scotland, and the United Free Church of Scotland

The current Principal is the Reverend Professor George Newlands and the Clerk Professor W. Ian P. Hazlett.

History

The Disruption of 1843 marked a schism in the Church of Scotland, resulting in the creation of the Free Church of Scotland. The Free Church established three colleges or seminaries of its own, detached from the universities, for the education of its ministers. As well as its Glasgow college, the other two colleges were New College, Edinburgh and Christ's College, Aberdeen.

The Glasgow College, funded by local subscription, was established in 1856. It was a multi-disciplinary institution of considerable reputation, existing outside the University of Glasgow's Faculty of Theology.

Later, in 1930, following the reunion of the churches and theological teaching facilities, the Glasgow Church college was renamed "Trinity College". After the reunion of the main Scottish Presbyterian churches in 1929–30, the two teaching facilities in the University and the Church College were reintegrated. From 1976, when the Church-owned Trinity College buildings at Park Circus, were finally vacated, all teaching of theology took place in the university Divinity Faculty. Accordingly, while Trinity College still exists, it is a body without walls.

On 2nd November 2006, Trinity College celebrated its [http://www.religions.divinity.gla.ac.uk/School/trinitycollege150.htm 150th Anniversary] with a gathering of some 250 alumni and friends.

ome notable teachers

Teachers in the pre-1930 College included Archibald B. Bruce, James Denney, Thomas M. Lindsay, George A. Smith, James Moffatt, Henry Drummond, and James Orr. In the modern era, in the reunited faculty, notable teachers have included John MacQuarrie, Ronald Gregor Smith, William McKane, William H.C. Frend, Ernest P. Best, William Barclay (theologian), John Zizioulas, Robert P. Carroll, Robert Davidson (theologian) and George Newlands.

Archives

The archives of Trinity College are maintained by the University of Glasgow Archives Services.

Further reading

* Stewart Mechie, "Trinity College Glasgow 1856–1956", London & Glasgow, 1956.
* W. Ian P Hazlett (ed.), "Traditions of Theology in Glasgow 1450–1990", Edinburgh, 1993.
* D. Wright, "Trinity College Glasgow", in "Dictionary of Scottish Church History & Theology", Edinburgh, 1991.

External links

* [http://www.religions.divinity.gla.ac.uk/School/trinitycollege.htm Trinity College, Glasgow]
* [http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/collection/trinity.html Trinity College Library]