The Story of the Scottish Church began as a series of lectures given by Dr. McCrie to large audiences in Edinburgh. They enjoyed a wide circulation in printed form, and at the very close of his life the author brought the history down to the period of the Disruption, and it was published in one volume, from which this edition is reprinted.
Thomas McCrie was a Scottish Secession minister and the eldest son of the Rev. Dr. Thomas McCrie (1772 - 1835) by his first wife.
Thomas McCrie the younger was educated at the High School in Edinburgh then studied divinity at the University of Edinburgh. He then transferred to the Theological Hall, run by the Secessionist Church and was ordained as a minister around 1818. His first position was as minister of the Secessionist Church in Crieff then he moved to Clola in Aberdeenshire. He succeeded his father as minister of the Davie Street Church Original Secession Church in Edinburgh.