William Lindsay Alexander - Works

Works

Alexander published, besides sermons and pamphlets:

• The Connexion and Harmony of the Old and New Testaments (Congregational Lecture in London, 1840), 1841; 2nd edit. 1853.
• Anglo-Catholicism, Edinburgh, 1843.
• Switzerland and the Swiss Churches, Glasgow, 1846. An account of his Swiss journey in Switzerland and the Swiss Churches, it led to an interchange of correspondence between the Swiss and Scottish churches.
• The Ancient British Church ; revised edition by Samuel Gosnell Green, 1889.
• Christ and Christianity, Edinburgh, 1854.
• Lusus Poetici, 1861, (privately printed; reprinted, with additions, in Ross's Life).
• Christian Thought and Work, Edinburgh, 1862.
• St. Paul at Athens, Edinburgh, 1865.
• Sermons, Edinburgh, 1875.

Posthumous was A System of Biblical Theology, Edinburgh, 1888, 2 vols. (edited by James Ross). He published also: memoirs of John Watson, minister at Musselburgh (1846), Ralph Wardlaw (1856), and William Alexander, his father (1867); expositions of Deuteronomy (Pulpit Commentary, 1882) and Zechariah (1885); and translations of Gustav Billroth on Corinthians (1837), Heinrich Andreas Christoph Hävernick's Introduction to the Old Testament (1852), and Isaak August Dorner's History of the Doctrine of the Person of Christ, vol. i. (1864).

In 1861 Alexander undertook the editorship of the third edition of John Kitto's Biblical Encyclopaedia, with the understanding that the whole work should be revised and brought up to date. In January 1870 he became one of the committee of Old Testament revisers. He edited other theological works. His Hymns for Christian Worship reached a third edition in 1866.

Alexander frequently contributed to the British Quarterly, the British and Foreign Evangelical Review, Good Words, and other periodicals; he edited the Scottish Congregational Magazine, 1835-1840 and 1847-51. To the Encyclopædia Britannica (eighth edition) he contributed several articles on topics of theology and philosophy (the publisher Adam Black was a member of his congregation). His articles on "Calvin" and "Channing" raised some controversy, and were changed in the ninth edition. To the Imperial Dictionary of Biography he also contributed.