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

Religion in crowd together Hoggs The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner and J.G. Lockharts Adam BlairThere is therefore now no curse word for those who ar in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you alleviate in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death (Romans 81-2). Given the highly charged religious environment of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scotland, the above personation must have been discussed many times in Christian circles then. just about of the Reformed assentful, perhaps, took the first part too seriously, to the expense of any median(prenominal) sense of morality, while others might have forgotten their freedom from condemnation and fallen into despair. Either way, both surveys pervert the orthodox Calvinistic berth of guilt laid out in the teachings of the doctrines namesake and the standardised confessions of the church at the time.While they may not make actually good theology, these dogmas at least provided ma terial for two nineteenth-century character studies, crowd Hoggs The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner and J.G. Lockharts Adam 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 previous generation and how fundamentalist Presbyterianism may have gone awful wrong. The protagonists of each book react in completely opposite shipway to their sinful acts Lockharts eponymous character has a nearly legalistic view of his own sin, while Hoggs Robert Wringhim follows a more antinomian path. Oddly enough, it is the former who ends up redeemed and the other damned, but their various(prenominal) journeys toward those ends follow much of the same path.Robert Wringhim, Hoggs cen... ... Studies Review Vol. 5 (2004) 9-26.Hogg, throng. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Oxford Oxford University Press, 1969.Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Ed. J.I. backpacker et. al. London HarperCollins Religious, 2002.Lockhart, J.G. Some Passages in the Life of Mr. Adam 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 parameter over Old Mortality. Nineteenth Century Scottish Fiction captious Essays. Ed. Ian Campbell. Manchester Carcanet crude 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.