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Motion · S6M-02875 · 19 Jan 2022

John Brown of Haddington

Lodged by Paul McLennan (Scottish National Party) Standard Motion 19 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament understands that 2022 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of the famed Scottish minister and theologian John Brown, born near Abernethy, Perthshire, in 1722; notes that Brown is principally associated with Haddington in East Lothian, where he laboured as a minister for several decades until his death in 1787 and where his house still stands; understands that Brown’s most famous work, The Self-interpreting Bible ("Brown’s Bible"), was widely owned and read by households across Scotland, and was alluded to by Robert Burns in his Epistle to James Tennant; further understands that Brown influenced the philosopher David Hume, who is reputed to have said Brown preached “as though Christ were at his elbow”; welcomes the fact that some of Brown’s original manuscripts are held by the John Gray Centre in Haddington; further welcomes the fact that the Scottish Parliament possesses a copy of "Brown’s Bible" in the Donald Dewar library, and acknowledges what it sees as the wide influence of John Brown of Haddington upon theological discourse, and the cause of the Christian religion in Scotland and beyond, over the last three centuries.

Supporters (19)

Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.