ABSTRACT
Home environment contributes to the making of a mindset. A Presbyterian and ostensibly Calvinist Scot, born in Perth, on the east coast of Scotland, but brought up in Presbyterian manses, rst in Pathhead (Fife), and then to the west of Scotland in Glasgow, could hardly escape being aware that Calvinism could be doctrinaire and legalistic. John Buchan’s thoughts about his parents and other Calvinists he encountered in his early life will be discussed below. As a boy, he intuitively sought to develop a natural literary air for his imaginative and critical pursuits. Calvinism was an important part of his life. roughout his life he remained a Presbyterian, but as a liberal Calvinist with distinctly ecumenical leanings.
