Does anyone happen to know what denomination Eric Liddell belonged to? Just curious.
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Eric Liddell's denomination.
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Eric Liddell was a minister in the Congregational Church (later the Congregational Union of Scotland).
His degree was in Science (Edinburgh University). After the 1924 Olympics he spent a year at Congregational College in Edinburgh before he went back to china where he worked as a science teacher until the Japanese invasion. He was actually an ordained congregational minister.
I work for the Eric Liddell Centre which maintains an archive of material about Eric Liddell which has gradually been given to us by his family. His niece came to see me yesterday with lots more memorabilia including one of his business cards which had his details in English on one side and Chinese on the other.
You can find out more at www dot ericliddell dot org just click on Eric Liddell at the top of the page. We plan to more than double the size of the online archive over the next year.
Gordon
His degree was in Science (Edinburgh University). After the 1924 Olympics he spent a year at Congregational College in Edinburgh before he went back to china where he worked as a science teacher until the Japanese invasion. He was actually an ordained congregational minister.
I work for the Eric Liddell Centre which maintains an archive of material about Eric Liddell which has gradually been given to us by his family. His niece came to see me yesterday with lots more memorabilia including one of his business cards which had his details in English on one side and Chinese on the other.
You can find out more at www dot ericliddell dot org just click on Eric Liddell at the top of the page. We plan to more than double the size of the online archive over the next year.
Gordon
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Thank you very much for your reply. I appreciate the fact that you registered just to answer my query.
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I was watching "Chariots of Fire" and near the end in one scene the camera pans from the inside front of a church which shows a banner(?) with the words "Church of Scotland" to Eric Liddell preaching in the pulpit. Was this a discrepancy or are the two denominations the same but using different titles?
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I, like many others, had thought that he belonged to the Church of Scotland, a Presbyterian church body and the most prominent Christian church in Scotland. Hearing that he actually was a Congregationalist, I am assuming that his church had a stronly Calvinist quality, which the church by the same name in the USA does not have.
FWIW, a key component of the film was the idea that Liddell was asked by the Prince of Wales to compete on Sunday contrary to his religious principles. It turns out that that was not true but was inserted into the film for effect.
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During the Olympics he preached at the Church of Scotland congregation in Paris. I think thats where the confusion comes from. He preached in many different types of churches and he was also one of the earliest stadium preachers. We have invitation cards that people would give to invite their friends to meetings he was hosting in football and rugby stadiums around Scotland. One other myth I have seen online is that he read Divinity at Edinburgh. This is incorrect. His degree was in pure science and he did one year of theological training at Congregational College which was located in George Square in Edinburgh. I have a photograph of him leaving the college to go back to China in a specially decorated coach.
The congregational church in scotland largely merged with the United Reformed Church in the 1990's. The URC was a merger of the English Presbyterians with the English Congregationalists. The building next to our centre is the church that Eric Liddell attended when he was in Edinburgh. It is a union of the original congregational church and the congregation which met in our building which was Church of Scotland. Its called Morningside United Church and its part of the URC and the Church of Scotland which is very unusual. When the churches merged the disused Church of Scotland building became the Eric Liddell Centre.
We are building some exhibition space so we can put more of our archive material on display. We have huge amounts of material which has been donated by the Liddell Family for safekeeping and public display. His medals are on loan to Edinburgh University mainly because they have better security than us, but I am intending to take them to London for the 2012 olympics where we are going to hold an event. he had three medals because he wona bronze in another event at the same olympics he won the gold at (plus his competitors medal).
The congregational church in scotland largely merged with the United Reformed Church in the 1990's. The URC was a merger of the English Presbyterians with the English Congregationalists. The building next to our centre is the church that Eric Liddell attended when he was in Edinburgh. It is a union of the original congregational church and the congregation which met in our building which was Church of Scotland. Its called Morningside United Church and its part of the URC and the Church of Scotland which is very unusual. When the churches merged the disused Church of Scotland building became the Eric Liddell Centre.
We are building some exhibition space so we can put more of our archive material on display. We have huge amounts of material which has been donated by the Liddell Family for safekeeping and public display. His medals are on loan to Edinburgh University mainly because they have better security than us, but I am intending to take them to London for the 2012 olympics where we are going to hold an event. he had three medals because he wona bronze in another event at the same olympics he won the gold at (plus his competitors medal).
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