After a brief career in accountancy, and five years in Arts and Divinity at the University of Glasgow, J. Walter McGinty spent most of his working life as a Parish Minister. He served in parishes in Stirlingshire, Clackmannanshire and - for twenty years - at Alloway in Ayrshire, the birthplace of the poet. He completed a BA in history at the Open University and, in 1995, a PhD in Scottish Literature at the University of Strathclyde. Retirement marked a new phase and this is his third book since leaving the pulpit, following 'Robert Burns and Religion' (Ashgate 2003) and '"An Animated Son of Liberty" A Life of John Witherspoon' (Arena 2012).
'This is a buik that thoroughly desairves its place oan the shelves o ony serious Burns scholar; it is the product o a lifetime's serious thinkin bi a verra serious an deeply philosophical thinker, an we are aa the beneficiaries o sic fowk!' Rab Wilson, Lallans - The Journal of The Scots Language Society, 2014
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