John Buchan Story
SCOTTISH CHARITY NUMBER SC042519
John Buchan and the vigorous pursuit
of peace
THE CHURCH TIMES 10 OCTOBER 2025
To mark the sesquicentenary of John Buchan’s birth, Ian Bradley asks what can be learnt from 19th-century ideas about
manliness
ALAMY
John Buchan (1875-1940), Scottish novelist and sometime Governor General of Canada
THE Victorian ideal of Christian manliness — so alien in today’s world — was at its height in the decade of John Buchan’s
birth. The phrase had been brought into popular consciousness in a series of pamphlets published by the Religious Tract Society
in the late 1860s; it found its fullest expression in an influential book published in 1879, The Manliness of Christ, by Thomas
Hughes, perhaps the most famous and devoted pupil of Dr Arnold at Rugby School.
To read the complete Ian Bradley’s sermon please click here for the pdf version.
John Buchan Story
SCOTTISH CHARITY NUMBER SC042519
John Buchan and the vigorous pursuit
of peace
THE CHURCH TIMES 10 OCTOBER 2025
To mark the sesquicentenary of John Buchan’s birth, Ian Bradley asks what can be learnt from 19th-century ideas about
manliness
ALAMY
John Buchan (1875-1940), Scottish novelist and sometime Governor General of Canada
THE Victorian ideal of Christian manliness — so alien in today’s world — was at its height in the decade of John Buchan’s
birth. The phrase had been brought into popular consciousness in a series of pamphlets published by the Religious Tract Society
in the late 1860s; it found its fullest expression in an influential book published in 1879, The Manliness of Christ, by Thomas
Hughes, perhaps the most famous and devoted pupil of Dr Arnold at Rugby School.
To read the complete Ian Bradley’s sermon please click here for the pdf version.
