Roderick Alick Finlayson (1895–1989) was a Scottish minister of the Free Church of Scotland who served as
Moderator of the General Assembly in 1945. In authorship he is usually R. A. Finlayson.
Life
He was born in
Lochcarron,
Wester Ross in 1895. The son of Roderick Finlayson (1847-1895) and his wife, Christina MacLennan (1853-1944). His father died in the year of his birth.
He served in France and Flanders during the
First World War. After the war he studied Divinity at the Free Church College in
Edinburgh. He was ordained in 1922 and became minister of
Urray
Urray ( gd, Urrath) is a scattered village and coastal parish, consisting of Easter, Old and Wester Urray and is located in the county of Ross in the Scottish council area of the Highland. Urray is also a parish in the district of Wester Ros ...
on the
Black Isle. From there he moved to the Hope Street (Gaelic) Free Church in
Glasgow, before becoming Professor of Systematic Theology at Edinburgh in 1945. He was elected Moderator in the same year.
[Herald (Scottish newspaper) 21 February 1989 obituary]
He was Editor of the “Free Church Monthly Record”.
He was a joint founder of the Scottish Tyndale Fellowship which evolved into the Scottish Evangelical Theological Society.
In 1945 he succeeded Rev
Ewen MacRury
Ewen MacRury (1891–1986) was a Free Church of Scotland minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly in 1944.
Life
He was born in 1891 one of eight children to John Little (Ewan Beag) MacRury (b.1843) and his wife, Betsy MacDona ...
as
Moderator of the General Assembly.
In 1955 he famously protested at the
Duke of Edinburgh
Duke of Edinburgh, named after the city of Edinburgh in Scotland, was a substantive title that has been created three times since 1726 for members of the British royal family. It does not include any territorial landholdings and does not produc ...
participating in sport on a Sunday.
He retired in 1966 aged 71. His health began to fail in 1983 and he died in
Edinburgh in February 1989 aged 93.
Family
He was married with one son.
Publications
*''Reformed Theological Writings''
*''The Cross in the Experience of Our Lord''
*''Feeding on Christ''
*''The Holiness of God''
References
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1895 births
1989 deaths
20th-century Ministers of the Free Church of Scotland