Religion in James Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justi

Religion in James pigs The close Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner and J.G. Lockharts crack BlairThere is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death (Romans 81-2). tending(p) the highly charged religious environment of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scotland, the above passage mustiness have been discussed many times in Christian circles then. Some of the meliorate faithful, perhaps, took the first part too seriously, to the expense of any normal genius of morality, while others might have forgotten their freedom from condemnation and go into despair. Either way, both views pervert the orthodox Calvinistic view of viciousness laid out in the t distributivelyings of the doctrines namesake and the standard confessions of the church at the time.While they may not make very ripe theology, these dogmas at least provided material for two nineteen th-century character studies, James grunters The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner and J.G. Lockharts spell Blair. Written when much (but not all) of post-Enlightenment Scotland had taken an anti-clerical, anti-religious stance, these novels explore the faith of the anterior generation and how fundamentalist Presbyterianism may have gone horribly wrong. The protagonists of each book react in completely opposite ways to their wrong acts Lockharts eponymous character has a nearly legalistic view of his consume sin, while hoggets Robert Wringhim come ins a more antinomian path. queerly enough, it is the former who ends up redeemed and the other damned, but their respective journeys toward those ends follow much of the same path.Robert Wringhim, Hoggs cen... ... Studies Review Vol. 5 (2004) 9-26.Hogg, James. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Oxford Oxford University raise up, 1969.Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Ed. J.I. Packe r et. al. capital of the United Kingdom HarperCollins Religious, 2002.Lockhart, J.G. Some Passages in the Life of Mr. disco biscuit Blair, Minister of the Gospel at Cross-Meikle. Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press, 1963.Mack, Douglas S. The Rage of Fanaticism in the Former Days James Hoggs Confession of a Justified Sinner and the Contr everyplacesy over Old Mortality. Nineteenth Century Scottish Fiction Critical Essays. Ed. Ian Campbell. Manchester Carcanet parvenue Press Limited, 1979. 37-50.Richardson, Thomas C. Character and Craft in Lockharts Adam Blair. Nineteenth Century Scottish Fiction Critical Essays. Ed. Ian Campbell. Manchester Carcanet New Press Limited, 1979. 51-67.