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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.

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.