The Tulip Driven Life

             By: Thomas F. Booher             I was a bit concerned that John Macleod’s Scottish Theology would be a hard and dry read given it was taken from lectures. There are some expected deviations and rabbit trails but most of them were interesting, and it was pleasant to read MacLeod’s Scottish way of putting things. This is essentially a summary of four hundred years of Scottish theology, from the time just before the Reformation to 1938 when the addresses were delivered. The goal will be to highlight some of the major changes in Scotland’s church history and see how they compare to our own history in the United States.             Prior to the Reformation Scotland was a free and independent nation, but aristocrats ran things poorly and the clergy itself was wealthy and immoral. Scotland’s freedom had the benefit of allowing for a more thorough reform of the John Knox and Puritan variety. Such a reform was not so easy to accomplish in England.             Scot