Andrew R Holmes
Biographic Data
| ID | 952192 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew R Holmes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew R |
| FAMILY NAME | Holmes |
| SIGNATURE | HOLMES A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6268-0345 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Coleman, The Orange Order
The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Modern Ireland
The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Modern Ireland provides in-depth analysis of the relationships between religion, society, politics, and everyday life on the island of Ireland from 1800 to the twenty-first century. Taking a chronological and all-island approach, it explores the complex and changing role of religion both before and after partition of the island. It addresses long-standing historical and political debates about religion, identity…
Oxford Handbook of Religion in Modern Ireland
Dwight L. Moody in Southern Ireland
Dwight Lyman Moody (1837–1899) established the blueprint for modern evangelical revivalism. He targeted a broad audience and so avoided contentious points of theology and local political issues. The result was that how Moody was interpreted by those who heard him is often more revealing than the content of his addresses. Moody's three evangelistic campaigns in southern Ireland (1874, 1882–1883, 1892) offer a suggestive case study of how his brand…
Creation, Evolution, and “The New Cosmic Philosophy”
This article explores the religious response of one neglected writer to the evolutionary philosophy of Herbert Spencer. William Todd Martin was a minister of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland and in 1887 published The Evolution Hypothesis: A Criticism of the New Cosmic Philosophy . The work demonstrates the essentially contested nature of “evolution” and “creation” by showing how a self-confessed creationist could affirm an evolutionary understa…
Dwight L. Moody in Ulster
The American evangelist Dwight L. Moody visited Ulster on three occasions – 1874, 1883 and 1892 – and his modern, respectable version of revivalism offered a welcome alternative to the ambiguous legacy of the 1859 Ulster revival. Moody stimulated an outpouring of interdenominational activism and may have contributed to a fundamentalist impulse amongst Evangelicals. His legacy in Ulster, as elsewhere, was to energise Evangelicals but at the expens…
Evangelical "Others" in Ulster, 1859-1912
This article considers the existence of a distinctive form of fundamentalism in the northern-Irish province of Ulster. It does so by examining the Protestant minorities that grew significantly in the decades after the Ulster revival of 1859. These evangelical others are important because their members were more likely to have fundamentalist tendencies than those who belonged to the main Protestant churches. The existing scholarship on fundamental…
Donald Harman Akenson. Exporting the Rapture
Boundless Dominion
Confession, Subscription, and Revival, c.1800–1914
Chapter 1 considers how Presbyterians in Ireland responded to the challenge of liberal theology and how that changed over time. Though Irish Presbyterianism remained conservative, the meaning of conservatism fluctuated between creedal distinctiveness and general evangelical principles. The discussion begins with the expansion of evangelicalism in the early nineteenth century and how this prompted a return to the Westminster Standards. The second …
The Irish Presbyterian Mind
This book considers how one protestant community responded to the challenges posed to traditional understandings of Christian faith between 1830 and 1930. It examines the attitudes of the leaders of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland to biblical criticism, modern historical method, evolutionary science, and liberal forms of protestant theology. It explores how they reacted to developments in other Christian traditions, including the so-called ‘Ro…
The Presbyterian Story
Chapter 2 explores the interplay between historical scholarship, church government, and Unionist identity politics. The chapter begins with the appropriation by evangelicals of the seventeenth-century origins of Presbyterianism in Ireland and how this was used to respond to theological and ecclesiological moderatism as well as the challenge of High Church Anglicanism. The second section examines how the High Church threat produced scholarship on …
Conclusion
A distinctive Irish experience of ministerial education and the commitment of Presbyterians in Ireland to the Union with Great Britain shaped a conservative response to modern criticism. There were a small number of ‘believing critics’ who sought accommodation with aspects of modern criticism, though they maintained their evangelical identity and there was no sustained opposition to them before 1914. Conservatism was also a product of transatlant…
Union and Presbyterian Ulster Scots
This chapter explores the relationship between literature and union among Presbyterian writers in nineteenth-century Ulster. It examines the work of the poet William McComb and the journalist James McKnight, who together were responsible for the publication of The Repealer Repulsed (1841), a collection of reportage and literary fancy written in response to Daniel O’Connell’s campaign to repeal the 1800 Act of Union. Their various publications emp…
Hughes, The Scots in Victorian and Edwardian Belfast
Hughes, The Scots in Victorian and Edwardian Belfast: A Study in Elite Migration." Scottish Historical Review, 97(2), pp. 232–233
Highland Shepherd
Protestants and ‘Greater Ireland’
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Religion, anti-slavery, and identity
Scholars have devoted much attention to the causes and consequences of Presbyterian emigration from Ulster to the thirteen colonies before 1776. This article moves beyond the eighteenth century to examine the continued religious links between Presbyterians in Ireland and the United States in the nineteenth century. It begins with an examination of the influence of evangelicalism on both sides of the Atlantic and how this promoted unity in denomin…
Loyalism and the Formation of the British World, 1775-1914
Explores loyalism as a social and political force in eighteenth and nineteenth century British colonies and former colonies
From Francis Hutcheson to James McCosh
This article examines the disputes amongst Irish Presbyterians about the teaching of moral philosophy by Professor John Ferrie in the college department of the Royal Belfast Academical Institution in the early nineteenth century and the substantive philosophical and theological issues that were raised. These issues have largely been ignored by Irish historians, but a discussion of them is of general relevance to historians of ideas as they illumi…
Victorian Religious Revivals
Book Review| January 01 2013 Victorian Religious Revivals: Culture and Piety in Local and Global Contexts Victorian Religious Revivals: Culture and Piety in Local and Global ContextsBebbington, David Andrew R. Holmes Andrew R. Holmes Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Wesley and Methodist Studies (2013) 5: 169–171. https://doi.org/10.2307/42909868 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation And…
Popular Culture, 1600–1914
A review of changes in language, custom, amusements during Ulster's transition from a rural to an urban industrial society
The Ulster Revival of 1859
The Protestant portion of the population of the north of Ireland experienced an extraordinary outburst of religious fervour in 1859. This article provides a critical overview of some of the interpretations of the revival offered by scholars and suggests a number of hitherto ignored themes under three headings: causes, controversies and consequences. The first section moves beyond questions of social and economic determinism to outline the sense o…
Evangelical Journeys
Journal Article Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern Ireland Religious Subculture Get access Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern Ireland Religious Subculture. By Claire Mitchell and Gladys Ganiel. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2011. 208pp. $28.00 paper. Andrew R. Holmes Andrew R. Holmes Queen's University BelfastBelfast, Northern Ireland [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxf…
The Church of Ireland and the third Home Rule Bill
The Shaping of Ulster Presbyterian Belief and Practice, 1770-1840
Until now, scholars of Ulster Presbyterianism have focused upon internal theological debates, institutions, and the political implications of Presbyterian theology as a way to explain the origins of the United Irish movement and the swift conversion of Presbyterians to support for the Union with Great Britain thereafter. This book breaks new ground by considering the religious beliefs and practices of Presbyterians in their own right. It examines…
Covenanter Politics
Historians of Ireland have devoted considerable attention to the Presbyterian origins of modern Irish republicanism in the 1790s and their overwhelming support for the Union with Great Britain in the 1880s. On the one hand, it has been argued that conservative politics came to dominate nineteenth-century Presbyterianism in the form of Henry Cooke who combined conservative evangelical religion with support for the established order. On the other h…
The Ulster Revival of 1859
The Protestant portion of the population of the north of Ireland experienced an extraordinary outburst of religious fervour in 1859. This article provides a critical overview of some of the interpretations of the revival offered by scholars and suggests a number of hitherto ignored themes under three headings: causes, controversies and consequences. The first section moves beyond questions of social and economic determinism to outline the sense o…
Protestant Millennialism, Evangelicalism, and Irish Society, 1790–2005
This volume documents the evolution and impact of one of the most enduring sources and symbols of sectarian conflict in Ireland - Protestant millennialism. The volume explores new sources and offers n
The Shaping of Irish Presbyterian Attitudes to Mission, 1790–1840
This article explores the various factors that both encouraged Irish Presbyterian involvement in mission and shaped how they understood their missionary calling. It contributes to the recent growth of interest in the Protestant missionary movement and takes issue with the predominant interpretation of Irish Presbyterianism offered by David Miller who misunderstands the complex relationship between traditional Presbyterianism, evangelicalism and m…
Presbyterian Religion, Historiography, and Ulster Scots Identity, C. 1800 to 1914
The links between Presbyterians in Scotland and the north of Ireland are obvious but have been largely ignored by historians of the nineteenth century. This article addresses this gap by showing how Ulster Presbyterians considered their relationship with their Scottish co-religionists and how they used the interplay of religious and ethnic considerations this entailed to articulate an Ulster Scots identity. For Presbyterians in Ireland, their Sco…
The experience and understanding of religious revival in Ulster Presbyterianism, c. 1800–1930
The phenomenon of religious revival has attracted considerable attention from scholars working in a variety of disciplines. In the Irish context, this is especially true in the case of Presbyterianism whose origin is often traced to the Six Mile Water revival of 1625 and is closely associated with the spectacular revival of 1859. The term revival is usually understood as describing a situation in which religious concerns and feelings acquire a ne…
Religion, anti-slavery, and identity
Scholars have devoted much attention to the causes and consequences of Presbyterian emigration from Ulster to the thirteen colonies before 1776. This article moves beyond the eighteenth century to examine the continued religious links between Presbyterians in Ireland and the United States in the nineteenth century. It begins with an examination of the influence of evangelicalism on both sides of the Atlantic and how this promoted unity in denomin…
Presbyterians and science in the north of Ireland before 1874
In his presidential address to the Belfast meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1874, John Tyndall launched what David Livingstone has called a ‘frontal assault on teleology and Christian theism’. Using Tyndall's intervention as a starting point, this paper seeks to understand the attitudes of Presbyterians in the north of Ireland to science in the first three-quarters of the nineteenth century. The first section o…
Biblical Authority and the Impact of Higher Criticism in Irish Presbyterianism, ca. 1850–1930
The decades between 1850 and 1930 saw traditional understandings of Christianity subjected to rigorous social, intellectual, and theological criticism across the transatlantic world. Unprecedented urban and industrial expansion drew attention to the shortcomings of established models of church organization while traditional Christian beliefs concerning human origins and the authority of Scripture were assailed by new approaches to science and bib…
Protestants and ‘Greater Ireland’
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
From Francis Hutcheson to James McCosh
This article examines the disputes amongst Irish Presbyterians about the teaching of moral philosophy by Professor John Ferrie in the college department of the Royal Belfast Academical Institution in the early nineteenth century and the substantive philosophical and theological issues that were raised. These issues have largely been ignored by Irish historians, but a discussion of them is of general relevance to historians of ideas as they illumi…
Professor James Thomson Sr. and Lord Kelvin
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
From Indio to Mestizo... to Indio
In September 1990 the Aymara population of La Paz triumphantly welcomed representatives of the ethnic groups of eastern Bolivia after their 35-day 700-kilometer march from Trinidad in the Department of Santa Cruz. Their strenuous March for Territory and Dignity was these groups' expression of protest against the increasing destruction of their living space. With the help of public pressure they were able to impose on the government their demands …
Ulster Presbyterian Belief and Practice, 1770–1840
Community and Discipline in Ulster Presbyterianism, c .1770–1840
Ulster Presbyterians in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries formally dealt out retribution, repentance and reconciliation through church discipline administered by Kirk sessions and presbyteries. These institutional structures had given Presbyterians an organizational framework that enhanced their geographical concentration in the north-east of Ireland. Hitherto, historians of Presbyterianism in Ireland have taken the view, often based on evi…
The experience and understanding of religious revival in Ulster Presbyterianism, c. 1800–1930
The phenomenon of religious revival has attracted considerable attention from scholars working in a variety of disciplines. In the Irish context, this is especially true in the case of Presbyterianism whose origin is often traced to the Six Mile Water revival of 1625 and is closely associated with the spectacular revival of 1859. The term revival is usually understood as describing a situation in which religious concerns and feelings acquire a ne…
Marriage and Sexual Relationships
This chapter outlines official marriage practices and attitudes, with particular reference to the established church, before examining the communal aspect of marriage and sexual relations within the context of church discipline and local community life.
Preaching
This chapter examines the various traditions and changes within Ulster Presbyterian preaching. The first section provides an overview of Old Light and Seceder preaching, drawing attention to the ‘free offer of the gospel’ and its importance to the development of evangelicalism within Presbyterianism. Section two begins with some general comments about the influence of Enlightenment ideas upon Presbyterian preaching, as mediated through university…
Conclusion
Author Webpage This book began by posing two questions: how should historians characterize Ulster Presbyterianism, and what made a Presbyterian a Presbyterian? In order to answer those essentially interrelated questions, it has been necessary to examine the provision of religious services, the public and private devotions of the laity, and how belief and practice changed over time. In attempting to characterize the Presbyterian community in Ulste…
Psalmody
This chapter examines the place of psalms in public worship, the style and standard of public praise, and popular attitudes to the psalms amongst the laity. It describes the strategies for reform devised by various reformers, the impact these had upon congregational praise, and the tensions within Presbyterianism that were brought to the surface as a result of attempts to change this central component of Presbyterian self-identity.
Catechizing, Education, and Reading Practices
This chapter begins by outlining how catechizing and visitation was conducted, and the impact evangelicalism had upon pastoral efficiency in the Synod of Ulster. Section two examines the provision of education through Sunday and day schools, noting the symbiotic relationship between the supply of opportunities for education on the part of voluntary societies and the demands of the laity. The chapter concludes by examining in general terms the rea…
Days of Fasting and Thanksgiving
Marking of the ‘signs of the times’ and the appointment of days for fasting and thanksgiving were characteristics of 17th-century Presbyterianism. Seceders and evangelicals in the 18th and 19th centuries shared these concerns, and the reasons they gave for calling these special days revealed how they understood their relationship with the 17th century and how thought about God and his relationship with the created order.
Family Worship, Prayer Meetings, and Lay Involvement in Church Life
This chapter describes the opportunities for fellowship and spiritual development that existed alongside public worship by assessing family worship and the development of prayer and fellowship meetings. It offers some comments about the impact of evangelicalism upon lay involvement in religious life in general, and Presbyterian church life in particular.
The Lord's Day
This chapter outlines the attitude of Ulster Presbyterians to Sabbath attendance and observance, along with the efforts of religious reformers in the 19th century to improve lay practice and deal with the problems caused by population and urban growth.
Communion and Discipline
The first section of this chapter examines the communal, personal, and practical preparations for communion, including a general discussion of the practice of church discipline. The last two sections explore the organization, structure, and meaning of the communion season while highlighting some of the changes and continuities in the 19th century, particularly the impact of the reforms promoted by Presbyterian evangelicals.
Death
This chapter examines two areas of practice to illustrate how Ulster Presbyterians perceived both life and death. Section one deals with wakes, their social character, the various popular beliefs that surrounded death, and the efforts of the Presbyterian authorities to reform perceived abuses. Section two examines the rituals of the deathbed, specifically the differences and shared experiences of evangelical and liberal Presbyterians as they atte…
Calendrical Customs and Alternative Beliefs
This chapter describes and assesses the various customs and beliefs in which Presbyterians indulged at springtime, Halloween, and Christmas. Presbyterians observed holidays because they marked the passing of the seasons and allowed them the opportunity to relax. They utilized alternative beliefs and practices because they made practical sense and accorded with a belief in God who was omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent. The efforts of reforme…
Baptism
This chapter explores the official and popular understandings of baptism and its importance to the life of communities, whether in terms of the church or local society.
Ulster Presbyterianism as A Popular Religious Culture, 1750–1860
Both the study of popular religion and popular culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries suffer from a number of methodological and definitional problems. Historians of religion often assume that popular religion is synonymous with superstitious beliefs that have little or no relation to confessional orthodoxy. It is further claimed that during the nineteenth century superstition was abandoned as a consequence of the modernization of soc…
Religious Polarisation, Church Reform, and Evangelicalism in Ireland, c . 1770–1850
The Shaping of Irish Presbyterian Attitudes to Mission, 1790–1840
This article explores the various factors that both encouraged Irish Presbyterian involvement in mission and shaped how they understood their missionary calling. It contributes to the recent growth of interest in the Protestant missionary movement and takes issue with the predominant interpretation of Irish Presbyterianism offered by David Miller who misunderstands the complex relationship between traditional Presbyterianism, evangelicalism and m…
Biblical Authority and the Impact of Higher Criticism in Irish Presbyterianism, ca. 1850–1930
The decades between 1850 and 1930 saw traditional understandings of Christianity subjected to rigorous social, intellectual, and theological criticism across the transatlantic world. Unprecedented urban and industrial expansion drew attention to the shortcomings of established models of church organization while traditional Christian beliefs concerning human origins and the authority of Scripture were assailed by new approaches to science and bib…
The Shaping of Ulster Presbyterian Belief and Practice, 1770-1840
Until now, scholars of Ulster Presbyterianism have focused upon internal theological debates, institutions, and the political implications of Presbyterian theology as a way to explain the origins of the United Irish movement and the swift conversion of Presbyterians to support for the Union with Great Britain thereafter. This book breaks new ground by considering the religious beliefs and practices of Presbyterians in their own right. It examines…
Protestant Millennialism, Evangelicalism, and Irish Society, 1790–2005
This volume documents the evolution and impact of one of the most enduring sources and symbols of sectarian conflict in Ireland - Protestant millennialism. The volume explores new sources and offers n
Presbyterians and science in the north of Ireland before 1874
In his presidential address to the Belfast meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1874, John Tyndall launched what David Livingstone has called a ‘frontal assault on teleology and Christian theism’. Using Tyndall's intervention as a starting point, this paper seeks to understand the attitudes of Presbyterians in the north of Ireland to science in the first three-quarters of the nineteenth century. The first section o…
Presbyterian Religion, Historiography, and Ulster Scots Identity, C. 1800 to 1914
The links between Presbyterians in Scotland and the north of Ireland are obvious but have been largely ignored by historians of the nineteenth century. This article addresses this gap by showing how Ulster Presbyterians considered their relationship with their Scottish co-religionists and how they used the interplay of religious and ethnic considerations this entailed to articulate an Ulster Scots identity. For Presbyterians in Ireland, their Sco…
Covenanter Politics
Historians of Ireland have devoted considerable attention to the Presbyterian origins of modern Irish republicanism in the 1790s and their overwhelming support for the Union with Great Britain in the 1880s. On the one hand, it has been argued that conservative politics came to dominate nineteenth-century Presbyterianism in the form of Henry Cooke who combined conservative evangelical religion with support for the established order. On the other h…
History (34 works) · Philosophy (34 works) · Political science (30 works) · Sociology (28 works) · Irish and British Studies (26 works) · Law (26 works) · Religious studies (24 works) · History (20 works) · Philosophy (18 works) · Politics (18 works)