The nineteenth-century Scottish theologian and church leader Edward Irving has been the subject of a remarkable resurgence of interest among historians and theologians in recent decades.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

A satirical report of a mock trial of Irving before the "High court of common sense"--Oliphant's Life of ... Irving. London, 1862. v. 1, p. 169.