Dictionary of Scottish Church History and Theology.

This splendid dictionary provides an almost completely adequate one-stop service for Scottish church history. The backbone of the dictionary is, inevitably and properly, prosopographical: there are good, incisive and usefully-referenced articles on almost anyone with some real connection with Scottish Christianity. The editors have been bold enough to include the living, so this part of the dictionary should be adequate for another generation. The next level of reference is geographical: here again the dictionary seems comprehensive, though if one needs to find out about that centre of medieval Scottish Christianity, Dunblane, one has to go to 'Cathedral churches' (and is, in fact, directed there, as well as - less usefully - to 'Early ecclesiastical sites' and 'Ecumenical movement'). Another important level of reference, indicated in the title of the dictionary, is theological: this, together with the …