Gavin White
Biographic Data
| ID | 3607368 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gavin White |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gavin |
| FAMILY NAME | White |
| SIGNATURE | WHITE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Robin Lamburn--From a Missionary's Notebook: The Yao of Tunduru and Other Essays
All Good Men'. The Development of Lubwa Mission, Chinsali, Zambia, 1905-1967
The Martyr Cult of the First World War
It is certain that the unrest of Europe of the past twenty years will be dispelled. It is even likely that our whole civilisation will be advanced.’ So wrote A. E. Lawrie, Rector of Old St Paul’s Episcopal Church in Edinburgh, in October of 1914. He was spending a three-month leave of absence as chaplain to an army hospital behind the lines in France. He added that the death of a particular soldier ‘spoke so loudly of Another Cruel Death, that on…
Whose are the Teinds? The Scottish Union of 1929
The Church of Scotland, from which Episcopalians had departed in 1690, and Covenanters shortly thereafter, suffered further division in the eighteenth century. The Seceders broke off in 1733 and the Relief Presbytery in 1752. The Seceders split into Burghers and Anti-Burghers in 1747, and at the close of that century each of these bodies divided into New Light and Old Light. The Old Lights found their way back into the mainstream by means which n…
Hector Pitchforth (1886-1927)
Although deaf from a very early age, he qualified as an engineer and in the First World War served with the fishing fleet. In 1918 he sailed for Baffin Island in the auxiliary schooner Erme for the Sabellum Trading Company, which was quite the most irresponsible of the various concerns trading between the end of whaling and the entry to the farther north of the Hudson's Bay Company. ... Pitchforth traded through the winter of 1920-1921 and, unusu…
Henry Toke Munn (1864-1952)
[Munn] came to Canada at the age of 22 and was nearly killed in a shoot-up in the streets of Montreal on the very day of landing. He became a farmer and then a horse-breeder in Manitoba, and by 1894 he was hunting muskoxen and wood buffalo in the far northwest. He subsequently prospected around Kootenay, joined the Yukon gold-rush as a storekeeper, and acquired the title of Captain while serving in the South African war. ... In 1914 Albert droppe…
Religion and Social Control in the Soviet Union 1945–1964
Why have churches in the U.S.S.R. been harassed in recent years? It has been supposed by many that if Stalin stopped most persecution during the Second World War, then things under Khrushchev could only improve. Instead they deteriorated, and all liberties of Soviet citizens received more respect except the religious. A common answer has been that the Soviet authorities were horrified by the continued hold of religion which they considered to be …
William Laird McKinlay, 1889-1983
William Laird McKinlay, one of the scientific staff of the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-18, died at G1asgow on 9 May 1983 at the age of 94. The son of a factory moulder in the industrial town of Clydebank downriver from Glasgow, he became a pupil-teacher at the age of 14 and subsequently studied at the University of Glasgow where he graduated both M.A. and B.Sc. in 1910. It was during his student days that his aid was enlisted by Dr. W.S. B…
The Fall of France
‘As for the good things of this life and its ills, God has willed that these should be common to both’ the righteous and the unrighteous. So wrote a well-known north African theologian of the fall of Rome in AD 410, an event which many observers attributed to the abandonment of ancient religious practices and beliefs in favour of Christianity. That they should do so was perhaps natural; it is always easier to claim betrayal than to admit defeat i…
No-one is free from parliament’: The worship and doctrine measure in parliament, 1974
In retrospect, we may agree that the prayer book crisis of 1927 and 1928 was not as critical as it seemed at the time, but it did leave unfinished business for a future generation. The draft prayer book of the Church of England had been rejected by parliament, and if any saner revision of that church’s worship proved acceptable to the church it would still have to be approved by parliament. Gregory Dix, who worried about these things more than wa…
Ideals in Urban Mission: Episcopalians in Twentieth Century Glasgow
At the beginning of this century Glasgow was romantic. It was a successful city, and it was growing rapidly. The 1901 census had shown that Scottish cities were growing faster than English, and Glasgow had increased by fifteen per cent in ten years. Much of this increase came from England, and from urban England at that. The bishop of Glasgow and Galloway said of his flock in 1901, ‘I can never find a west of Scotland man who is a hereditary epis…
New names for old things: Scottish reaction to early tractarianism
Storms are more easily studied in tea-cups than in oceans. Early tractarianism was clearly a storm and the Scottish episcopal church was equally clearly a tea-cup. It is assumed for this study that tractarianism was only one aspect of a wider movement which affected the church of England and Roman Catholicism in similar ways, though it affected the church of Scotland in dissimilar ways. Its basic tenet was that God is holy and cannot be approache…
Captain W. J. Jackson of Baffin Island
There have been many great men in the history of the Canadian eastern Arctic, and it must be admitted from the start that Jackson was not one of them. He was a minor figure, but in the early years of this century he exerted an influence in the region out of proportion to his own importance. It may be that he did nobody any good, and it is true that nobody had any good to say of him. What Jackson did was to promote his own fantasies until solider …
Firearms in Africa: An introduction
Studies of firearms in Africa undertaken at the University of London, 1967–1970, tentatively suggest that their initial impact was less than had been expected, and that their success in war rapidly declined thereafter. Local manufacture of firearms was very limited, perhaps through lack of necessity, though gunpowder was widely produced. Identifying types of firearms is a problem, though general conclusions may be drawn from contemporary referenc…
Firearms in Africa: An introduction
Studies of firearms in Africa undertaken at the University of London, 1967–1970, tentatively suggest that their initial impact was less than had been expected, and that their success in war rapidly declined thereafter. Local manufacture of firearms was very limited, perhaps through lack of necessity, though gunpowder was widely produced. Identifying types of firearms is a problem, though general conclusions may be drawn from contemporary referenc…
The Martyr Cult of the First World War
It is certain that the unrest of Europe of the past twenty years will be dispelled. It is even likely that our whole civilisation will be advanced.’ So wrote A. E. Lawrie, Rector of Old St Paul’s Episcopal Church in Edinburgh, in October of 1914. He was spending a three-month leave of absence as chaplain to an army hospital behind the lines in France. He added that the death of a particular soldier ‘spoke so loudly of Another Cruel Death, that on…
Captain W. J. Jackson of Baffin Island
There have been many great men in the history of the Canadian eastern Arctic, and it must be admitted from the start that Jackson was not one of them. He was a minor figure, but in the early years of this century he exerted an influence in the region out of proportion to his own importance. It may be that he did nobody any good, and it is true that nobody had any good to say of him. What Jackson did was to promote his own fantasies until solider …
Firearms in Africa: An introduction
Studies of firearms in Africa undertaken at the University of London, 1967–1970, tentatively suggest that their initial impact was less than had been expected, and that their success in war rapidly declined thereafter. Local manufacture of firearms was very limited, perhaps through lack of necessity, though gunpowder was widely produced. Identifying types of firearms is a problem, though general conclusions may be drawn from contemporary referenc…
Captain W. J. Jackson of Baffin Island
There have been many great men in the history of the Canadian eastern Arctic, and it must be admitted from the start that Jackson was not one of them. He was a minor figure, but in the early years of this century he exerted an influence in the region out of proportion to his own importance. It may be that he did nobody any good, and it is true that nobody had any good to say of him. What Jackson did was to promote his own fantasies until solider …
New names for old things: Scottish reaction to early tractarianism
Storms are more easily studied in tea-cups than in oceans. Early tractarianism was clearly a storm and the Scottish episcopal church was equally clearly a tea-cup. It is assumed for this study that tractarianism was only one aspect of a wider movement which affected the church of England and Roman Catholicism in similar ways, though it affected the church of Scotland in dissimilar ways. Its basic tenet was that God is holy and cannot be approache…
Ideals in Urban Mission: Episcopalians in Twentieth Century Glasgow
At the beginning of this century Glasgow was romantic. It was a successful city, and it was growing rapidly. The 1901 census had shown that Scottish cities were growing faster than English, and Glasgow had increased by fifteen per cent in ten years. Much of this increase came from England, and from urban England at that. The bishop of Glasgow and Galloway said of his flock in 1901, ‘I can never find a west of Scotland man who is a hereditary epis…
No-one is free from parliament’: The worship and doctrine measure in parliament, 1974
In retrospect, we may agree that the prayer book crisis of 1927 and 1928 was not as critical as it seemed at the time, but it did leave unfinished business for a future generation. The draft prayer book of the Church of England had been rejected by parliament, and if any saner revision of that church’s worship proved acceptable to the church it would still have to be approved by parliament. Gregory Dix, who worried about these things more than wa…
William Laird McKinlay, 1889-1983
William Laird McKinlay, one of the scientific staff of the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-18, died at G1asgow on 9 May 1983 at the age of 94. The son of a factory moulder in the industrial town of Clydebank downriver from Glasgow, he became a pupil-teacher at the age of 14 and subsequently studied at the University of Glasgow where he graduated both M.A. and B.Sc. in 1910. It was during his student days that his aid was enlisted by Dr. W.S. B…
The Fall of France
‘As for the good things of this life and its ills, God has willed that these should be common to both’ the righteous and the unrighteous. So wrote a well-known north African theologian of the fall of Rome in AD 410, an event which many observers attributed to the abandonment of ancient religious practices and beliefs in favour of Christianity. That they should do so was perhaps natural; it is always easier to claim betrayal than to admit defeat i…
Henry Toke Munn (1864-1952)
[Munn] came to Canada at the age of 22 and was nearly killed in a shoot-up in the streets of Montreal on the very day of landing. He became a farmer and then a horse-breeder in Manitoba, and by 1894 he was hunting muskoxen and wood buffalo in the far northwest. He subsequently prospected around Kootenay, joined the Yukon gold-rush as a storekeeper, and acquired the title of Captain while serving in the South African war. ... In 1914 Albert droppe…
Religion and Social Control in the Soviet Union 1945–1964
Why have churches in the U.S.S.R. been harassed in recent years? It has been supposed by many that if Stalin stopped most persecution during the Second World War, then things under Khrushchev could only improve. Instead they deteriorated, and all liberties of Soviet citizens received more respect except the religious. A common answer has been that the Soviet authorities were horrified by the continued hold of religion which they considered to be …
Hector Pitchforth (1886-1927)
Although deaf from a very early age, he qualified as an engineer and in the First World War served with the fishing fleet. In 1918 he sailed for Baffin Island in the auxiliary schooner Erme for the Sabellum Trading Company, which was quite the most irresponsible of the various concerns trading between the end of whaling and the entry to the farther north of the Hudson's Bay Company. ... Pitchforth traded through the winter of 1920-1921 and, unusu…
Whose are the Teinds? The Scottish Union of 1929
The Church of Scotland, from which Episcopalians had departed in 1690, and Covenanters shortly thereafter, suffered further division in the eighteenth century. The Seceders broke off in 1733 and the Relief Presbytery in 1752. The Seceders split into Burghers and Anti-Burghers in 1747, and at the close of that century each of these bodies divided into New Light and Old Light. The Old Lights found their way back into the mainstream by means which n…
The Martyr Cult of the First World War
It is certain that the unrest of Europe of the past twenty years will be dispelled. It is even likely that our whole civilisation will be advanced.’ So wrote A. E. Lawrie, Rector of Old St Paul’s Episcopal Church in Edinburgh, in October of 1914. He was spending a three-month leave of absence as chaplain to an army hospital behind the lines in France. He added that the death of a particular soldier ‘spoke so loudly of Another Cruel Death, that on…
All Good Men'. The Development of Lubwa Mission, Chinsali, Zambia, 1905-1967
Robin Lamburn--From a Missionary's Notebook: The Yao of Tunduru and Other Essays
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